Photographs: Co. Cork

Cat's-ear Hypochaeris radicata Cluas chait Family: Asteraceae Flowering June - September. Perennial. Native. Bright yellow flowers, greyish below outer florets. Long, thin, narrow, colourless scales amongst the flowers. Stems more/less hairless, enlarging at top, with dark, scaly bracts. Simple or once/twice branched. Leaves wavy-toothed, more/less bristly, oblong-lanceolate in basal rosette. Flower stems 20-40cm. Very variable. Very common on roadsides, walls, grassland and dunes. Very similar: Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon taraxacoides

Cats-ear, Hypochaeris radicata, Cluas chait