''Hieracium lepidulum'', the tussock hawkweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

, native to Europe, and introduced to Great Britain. A

triploid Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than two paired sets of ( homologous) chromosomes. Most species whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes) are diploid, meaning they have two complete sets of chromosomes, one fro ...

, it is considered potentially invasive.

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lepidulum Flora of Norway Flora of Sweden Flora of the Baltic states Flora of Middle Europe Flora of France Flora of Italy Flora of Bulgaria Plants described in 1892 Taxa named by Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt {{Cichorieae-stub