Nederlands: Muizenoor
Español: Vellosilla
Français: Épervière piloselle - Oreille de souris - Oreille de rat - Piloselle de rat
Deutsch: Kleine Habichtskraut - Mausohr-Habichtskraut - Kleines Mauseohr
Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: May-October
Height: 2-30cm
Altitude: to 3000m
Colour: lemon-yellow
Flower: 20-30mm, solitary with blunt petals, outer florets often red-striped underneath
Leaves: furry, short elliptical, in a basal rosette, often broadest above the middle, untoothed
Habitat: grassy terrain, woods, waste and bare places, hill-slopes, sand-dunes, banks and walls, on dry calcareous soils
Distribution: most European countries
Notes: Like most hawkweed species, Hieracium pilosella shows tremendous variation and is a complex of several dozens subspecies and hundreds of varieties and forms. Mouse-ear Hawkweed favours dry, sunny areas. It grows well on sandy and similarly less fertile ground types. It produces stolons which generate a new rosette at their extremity, each rosette has the possibility of developing into a new clone forming dense mats in open space. The plants medicinal properties (anti-inflamatory) were recognized back in medieval times, though nowadays it is considered a weed in some parts of the world.
Related key words: Rotterdam, Botanische tuin Kralingen, Fort Rammekens Ritthem
