Mouse-ear hawkweed
Low, mat-forming yellow-flowered plant of dry sandy grasslands; offers bees small amounts of nectar and pollen, of local importance only.
- Nectar
- Low
- Pollen
- Medium
- Flowering
- JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
- Pollen colour
- Height
- 0,05-0,3 m
- Life cycle
- Perennial
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Mouse-ear hawkweed is a perennial that forms dense mats with its creeping surface runners on dry, nutrient-poor sandy soils, stony pastures and road embankments. Its pale yellow heads open singly on thin stalks; bees collect mostly pollen and a little nectar. In dry summers it can give a little support where other plants have dried up.
Flowering
It lasts from May to August, in places until September; the heads open in sunny weather and stay closed when it is cloudy.
Honey and pollen
There is no monofloral honey. The pollen loads are yellow.
Note for the beekeeper
It is insignificant for honey yield. The species used to be classified in the genus Hieracium; its current name is Pilosella officinarum. In parts of New Zealand and North America it is an alien species that invades pastures; in Europe and Turkey it is native.