Huachuca Hawkweed

Plants 30–60 cm (herbage sometimes glaucous). Stems proximally glabrous or piloso-hirsute (hairs 6–10+ mm), distally glabrous. Leaves: basal (0–)3–5, cauline 4–8+; blades oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, 40–80(–120) × 5–10(–20) mm, lengths 2.5–8+ times widths, bases cuneate to truncate, margins entire, apices rounded to acute, faces glabrous or piloso-hirsute (hairs 3–6+ mm). Heads 6–25+ in ± corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles usually glabrous, sometimes stellate-pubescent and/or stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 8–13. Involucres campanulate, 7–10 mm. Phyllaries 13–16+, apices ± rounded, abaxial faces usually glabrous, sometimes stellate-pubescent and/or stipitate-glandular. Florets ca. 20; corollas whitish to pinkish, ca. 8 mm. Cypselae weakly urceolate, 3–4.5 mm; pappi of 50–60+, white or stramineous bristles in 2+ series, 4–5+ mm.

Hieracium carneum, common name Huachuca hawkweed, is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae, native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Chihuahua. It grows on rocky sites at elevations of 2,000–2,300 m (6,600–7,500 ft).

Hieracium carneum is an herb up to 60 cm (24 in) tall. Leaves are lanceolate to linear, up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long. Flower heads contain white to pinkish ray flowers but no disc flowers.