Hieracium gronovii, commonly known as queendevil, hairy hawkweed, beaked hawkweed, and Gronovius' hawkweed, is a North American plant species in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is common and widespread across much of the continent from Ontario south as far as Florida, the Dominican Republic, and Panama.Biota of North America Program 2004 county distribution mapCorrea A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PanamaGarcía-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad UniversitariaNelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576. Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa.photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Dominican Republic in 1967 The plant can be found in rocky, dry, open woods and in fields.
Hieracium gronovii is an herb up to tall, with a hairy stem rising from a rosette of basal leaves. The basal leaves are up to long and are broadly obovate in shape. Leaves on the stem are alternate and smaller. The base of the stem is hairier than the upper stem. The upper stem also has fewer, smaller leaves. The flowers, blooming May to October, are yellow and small, up to across.
Ecology
Hieracium gronovii is insect pollinated and is recorded to have been visited in northern Florida by Lasioglossum reticulatum. Ulyshen, M. D., K. Robertson, S. Horn, and C. Dixon. 2024. Characterization of the bee community and pollination network in a southeastern U.S. pine savanna. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12:1403602.
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