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Large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America
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hieracium
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Hieracium , known by the common name hawkweed and classically as hierakion (from ancient Greek ιεράξ, hierax ' hawk '), is a genus of the sunflower ( Helianthus ) family Asteraceae (or Compositae ), and closely related to dandelion ( Taraxacum ), chicory ...
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We may instance Rubus, Rosa, and Hieracium amongst plants, several genera of insects, and several genera of Brachiopod shells.
Assigned also at one time to the genus Hieracium, but now placed by most botanists in the genus Leontodon, and sometimes in the genus Apargia, are the Hawkbits, of which there are two British species, the Autumnal Hawkbit and the Rough Hawkbit, both abundantly distributed throughout Britain, in meadowland, and on commons and waste ground.
Lactuca Canadensis, the wild Lettuce or Trumpet Weed, and Hieracium Canadense, are also given the designation of 'Fireweed' in America from their habit of growing on newly-burnt fallow, but Erechtites hieracifolia (Rafin.