Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit petal edges with their five toothed petals. Lesser Hawkbit has a very different-looking flower, unlike the "messy-looking" flower of Rough Hawkbit.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit petal edges with their five toothed petals. Lesser Hawkbit has a very different-looking flower, unlike the "messy-looking" flower of Rough Hawkbit.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit petal edges with their five toothed petals. Lesser Hawkbit has a very different-looking flower.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit petal edges with their five toothed petals. Lesser Hawkbit has a very different-looking flower.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. A specimen that has red stripes, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Sometimes the undersides are reddish, as later image, sometimes they aren't, as here!

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Sometimes the undersides are reddish, as later image, sometimes they aren't, as here!

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Unlike Lesser Hawkbit which has hairless phyllaries, Rough Hawkbit has roughly hairy phyllaries and note the top hairs - you can just make out that many of them are forked - classic for Hawkbits.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Unlike Lesser Hawkbit which has hairless phyllaries, Rough Hawkbit has roughly hairy phyllaries and note the top hairs - you can just make out that many of them are forked - classic for Hawkbits.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Basal rosette leaves are held variably aloft, unlike Lesser Hawkbit where they are ground-hugging.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Basal rosette leaves are held variably aloft, unlike Lesser Hawkbit where they are ground-hugging.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit leaf, they can have variably lobed margins, sometimes almost entire.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic Hawkbit leaf, they can have variably lobed margins, sometimes almost entire.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Leaves have hairy edges.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. You can more clearly see the bristly-hairy nature of the leaves.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Leaves broader than Lesser Hawkbit and held more aloft.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic brownish pappus what you can't see clearly is that each parachute hair has short-feathery herringbone hairs, see the next image.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. Classic brownish pappus what you can't see clearly is that each parachute hair has short-feathery herringbone hairs, see the next image.

Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. in this image you can see the tiny herringbone hairs, not very clear as they are so slender.

Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) (03/07/2022) Falking Hill, Falking, W Sussex. in this image you can see the tiny herringbone hairs, not very clear as they are so slender.