What is Hieracium?
Q: What is Hieracium?
A: Hieracium is the hawkweed.
Q: How many species and subspecies does Hieracium have?
A: Hieracium has over ten thousand species and subspecies.
Q: Do all members of the family have tightly packed flowerheads?
A: Yes, all members of the family have tightly packed flowerheads made of many small flowers.
Q: How do hawkweeds reproduce?
A: Hawkweeds reproduce asexually by seeds which are genetically identical to those of the mother plant.
Q: How do European experts treat Hieracium?
A: Some European experts treat Hieracium as two genera, Hieracium and Pilosella.
Q: What is the difference between Hieracium and Pilosella?
A: Hieracium and Pilosella are two different genera, where Hieracium is the hawkweed and Pilosella is another genus of sunflowers.
Q: Is the self-replication of hawkweeds a type of sexual or asexual reproduction?
A: The self-replication of hawkweeds is a type of asexual reproduction.
