Hieracium altipes (Zahn) Dahlst.

Sennikov, Alexander, 2025, The collection-based inventory and spatial analysis of Hieracium s. str. (Asteraceae) in Finland, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 154676-e 154676 : e154676-

Hieracium altipes (Zahn) Dahlst.

Native status

Native. Sparse forests, open forest margins.

Distribution

Finland: Al; Sweden ( Tyler 2006 e). Erroneously reported from north-western European Russia by Schljakov (1989).

Diagnosis

Stems 40–50 cm tall. Rosulate leaves elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, base narrowly cuneate or cuneate, apex triangular or subrotund, with small repand teeth, thin, pale-green, with sparse simple hairs 0.5 mm long above, broadly glabrescent in the centre, on long petioles. Cauline leaf single, reduced in size. Phyllaries narrowly triangular, with acute apex, 10–11 mm long, grey-green, with rare black simple hairs 1–1.5 mm long, rather dense glandular hairs 0.8–1.5 mm long and sparse stellate hairs along the margins, apex without ciliae. Synflorescence branches with solitary simple hairs, very dense glandular hairs 0.5–0.8 mm long and stellate hairs. Styles with black papillae. Ligules glabrous.