Hieraceium albiflorum
White-flowered Hawkweed

Family: Asteraceae [Compositae] (Sunflower family)

Photo taken at base of Icicle Ridge trail, openly wooded, dry slope

Flowers:

few to many flowers in open cymes or panicles; ligules white

Fruit:

2 to 3 mm, red-brown

Leaves:

alternate; entire to few toothed, reduced upward; coarsely long-hairy, stellate hairs lacking

Plant:

4 to 8 dm tall, lower plant densely hairy

Habitat:

dry forests

Distribution of species:

Alaska to California, east to Colorado

Distribution of genus:

more or less 250 species: worldwide