Toxic hawkweed (Hieracium virosum)

Toxic hawkweed, a reference photo — Photo: Arkadiusz Nowak, Marcin Nobis, Sylwia Nowak, Agnieszka Nobis, Anna Wróbel, Sebastian Świerszcz, Ewelina Klichowska, Iwona Dembicz & Grzegorz Kusza · CC BY 4.0 (licence)

Hieracium virosum is a species of flowering plant in the hawkweed genus Hieracium (family Asteraceae). It is native to non-arid temperate areas of Eurasia, from southeastern and eastern Europe, Central Asia, across Siberia, Mongolia, northern China, and as far as Sakhalin island. A perennial of the steppes and forest-steppes, it is not apomictic.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Toxic hawkweed being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Hieracium robustum
Hieracium krylovii
Hieracium sabaudum

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Hieracium
Species: Hieracium virosum

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