- Taxon
- Weed
Habitat: alpine, bank, gravel, hill, margin, open, pasture, roadside, scree, shaded, shrubland, silt, slope, track, unstable/eroded, wasteland
Dispersal: Seed, vegetative
Recognition
- a small long-lived herbaceous plant forming rosettes of leaves on the ground.
- its stalkless, hairy leaves are elongated (up to 15 cm long), dull green with dark purple streaks above, and have toothed margins.
- it produces upright flowering stems (up to 30 cm tall).
- its flower-heads (3-5) are borne in small dense clusters at the top of the stems.
- these flower-heads are bright yellow in colour.
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