Leontodon hispidusL.

bristly hawkbitrough hawkbit

WFO wfo-0000018147 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. a Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205459993
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201569706
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. c Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165944376
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163281524
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Juraj Ahel
fig. e Juraj Ahel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162722463
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. f Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156928842
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. g Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151446620
Leontodon hispidus, photographed by Charlie Farrell
fig. h Charlie Farrell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 148164331

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Leontodon hispidus is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Leontodon hispidus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Flowering 277 in flower of 319 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Leontodon hispidus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 277 of 319 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 89 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.

  • Apargia alpina (Jacq.) Host
  • Apargia brumatii (Rchb.) Steud.
  • Apargia communis Spenn.
  • Apargia danubialis (Jacq.) Scop.
  • Apargia dubia Willd.
  • Apargia ericetorum Richt.
  • Apargia guestphalica Boenn. ex DC.
  • Apargia hastilis (L.) Host
  • Apargia heterophylla Moench
  • Apargia hirta Steud.
  • Apargia hispida (L.) Hoffm.
  • Apargia incana Mart.
  • Apargia incana var. incana
  • Apargia intermedia Schult. ex Steud.
  • Apargia livida Moench
  • Apargia proteiformis (Vill.) Ambrosi
  • Apargia sinuata Kit.
  • Apargia sudetica Link ex Spreng.
  • Hedypnois hispida (L.) Huds.
  • Hyoseris aculeata Pers.
  • Leontodon alpinus Jacq.
  • Leontodon asperrimus Schur
  • Leontodon bourgaeanus Willk.
  • Leontodon brumatii Rchb.

and 65 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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