Pringle's Hawkweed

Plants 20–45+ cm. Stems proximally usually piloso-hirsute (or lanate, hairs 5–8+ mm, usually curled and tangled), sometimes nearly glabrous, distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–2+ mm) and stellate-pubescent. Leaves: basal (2–)3–8+, cauline (0–)3+; blades elliptic or spatulate to oblanceolate, lanceolate, or lance-linear, (35–)50–120(–200+) × 10–25(–40+) mm, lengths 2–5(–10+) times widths, bases ± cuneate, margins usually entire, rarely toothed, apices obtuse to acute, faces (proximal leaves) piloso-hirsute (to lanate, hairs 1–3+ mm; distal leaves often ± glabrate). Heads 3–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles usually stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 3–5+. Involucres campanulate, (7–)8–9 mm. Phyllaries 12–15+, apices rounded to acute, abaxial faces stellate-pubescent and/or stipitate-glandular. Florets 12–15+; corollas yellow, 7–9 mm. Cypselae columnar, 2.2–4 mm; pappi of (40–)60–80, white or stramineous bristles in 2+ series, 4–5+ mm.

Hieracium pringlei, common name Pringle's hawkweed, is a North American plant species in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico with additional populations in Guatemala, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Hieracium pringlei is an herb up to 45 cm (18 in) tall with woolly hairs, with leaves both on the stem and in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are up to 200 mm (7.9 in) long, hairy, occasionally with teeth on the edges. One stalk can produce 3-20 flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head has 12-15 yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.