Hypochaeris laevigata(L.) Ces., Pass. & Gibelli

WFO wfo-0000125732 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Riccardo Guarino
fig. a Riccardo Guarino, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-19 / obs. 176465026
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127396968
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. c Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131995591
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127218632
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93555856
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131776170
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126891101
Hypochaeris laevigata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126939649

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Where it actually grows measured, from 34 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.3 °C 0.8 °C 9.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.2 °C 28.4 °C 33.8 °C
Annual rainfall 505 mm 916 mm 1,457 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 23 mm 43 mm 145 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 34 research-grade observations of Hypochaeris laevigata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 20 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.

  • Achyrophorus decipiens (Cass.) Talavera
  • Achyrophorus hieracioides (Desf.) Talavera
  • Achyrophorus laevigatus (L.) Talavera & M.Talavera
  • Agenora laevigata D.Don
  • Hypochaeris albicans Ucria
  • Hypochaeris alliatae (Biv.) A.Galán, E.Castro & Vicente Orell.
  • Hypochaeris glauca C.Presl
  • Hypochaeris leontodontoides var. glauca N.Galland & Favarger
  • Piptopogon decipiens Cass.
  • Piptopogon laevigatus Sch.Bip.
  • Rodigia alliatae (Biv.) G.Don ex Loudon
  • Seriola albicans Tineo
  • Seriola alliatae Biv.
  • Seriola glauca Tineo
  • Seriola hieracioides Desf.
  • Seriola laevigata L.
  • Seriola laevigata var. grandiflora Lojac.
  • Seriola laevigata var. media Lojac.
  • Seriola laevigata var. montana Lojac.
  • Seriola rubescens Tineo

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.