Hieracium aurantiacum

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  This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.

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Pilosella are hairy herbaceous perennials spreading by rhizomes or stolons, with leaves in basal rosettes, and sometimes as smaller stem leaves, and stems topped with flowerheads like small dandelions, in shades usually of yellow, sometimes orange, rarely red or white, and windblown seed with a pappus of white or pale brown hairs Pilosella aurantiaca is a hairy herbaceous perennial spreading by stolons to form clumps of basal rosettes of elliptical green leaves, and stems up to 20cm high topped by clusters of flowerheads, 1.5cm across, which in bud first reveal the deep russet-red undersides of the petals, then open out into rich orange florets, shading to golden orange towards the centre, in summer; it is widely naturalised in Britain, and is visited by bees for nectar and pollen