Hieracium amplexicauleL.

WFO wfo-0000117103 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Hieracium amplexicaule, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. a Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205606360
Hieracium amplexicaule, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. b Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205606366
Hieracium amplexicaule, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. c Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205605834
Hieracium amplexicaule, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. d Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205717558

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Hieracium amplexicaule is native: Algeria, Morocco, Austria, Baleares, Corse, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Spain, Switzerland AlgeriaMoroccoAustriaCorseFranceGermanyItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSpainSwitzerland Baleares
Native distribution of Hieracium amplexicaule, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 70 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.3 °C -6.1 °C -0.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.1 °C 23.1 °C 23.3 °C
Annual rainfall 855 mm 1,449 mm 1,465 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 154 mm 265 mm 268 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 70 research-grade observations of Hieracium amplexicaule that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 42 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Catonia cordifolia Moench
  • Hieracium amplexicaule subsp. garidelianum (Arv.-Touv.) Zahn
  • Hieracium amplexicaule subsp. leonis Sennen
  • Hieracium amplexicaule subsp. petraeum (Bluff & Fingerh.) Zahn
  • Hieracium amplexicaule subsp. speluncarum (Arv.-Touv.) Zahn
  • Hieracium amplexicaule subsp. tappeineri (Murr & Zahn) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Hieracium amplexicaule var. glutinosum Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium amplexicaule var. spelaeum Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium amplexicaule var. spisciense Zahn
  • Hieracium amplexicaule var. tappeineri Murr & Zahn
  • Hieracium atlanticum Fr.
  • Hieracium attracticaule Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium belveriense Arv.-Touv. & Gaut.
  • Hieracium berardianum Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium berardianum var. berardianum
  • Hieracium berardianum var. derbezianum Belli
  • Hieracium cadinense Evers
  • Hieracium chenevardianum Zahn
  • Hieracium chenevardianum (Zahn) Prain
  • Hieracium derbezianum (Belli) Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium dioscorideum Arv.-Touv.
  • Hieracium emarginatum Scheele
  • Hieracium euplecum Sudre
  • Hieracium fouresii Sudre

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.