Queendevil
StarHieracium gronovii
Synonyms: Hieracium carolinianum f. pinetorum, Pilosella pennsilvanica, Hieracium gronovii var. glabrescens, Hieracium gronovii var. normale, Hieracium minarum, Hieracium carolinianum subvar. subvenosum, Hieracium carolinianum, Hieracium carolinianum f. glabrescens, Hieracium carolinianum f. normale, Hieracium gronovii var. alpestre, Hieracium gronovii var. hirsutissimum, Hieracium gronovii subsp. domingense, Hieracium gronovii var. foliosum, Hieracium rugelii, Hieracium ekmanii, Hieracium carolinianum subsp. domingense, Hieracium carolinianum subsp. rugelii, Hieracium pennsilvanicum, Hieracium marylandicum, Stenotheca gronovii, Hieracium gronovii var. virescens, Hieracium hondurense, Hieracium carolinianum f. alpestre, Hieracium panamense, Hieracium carolinianum f. virescens, Hieracium gronovii var. subvenosum, Hieracium gronovii var. pinetorum, Hieracium foliosum
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In nineteenth-century North American Eclectic and domestic herbal practice the hawkweeds, including Hieracium gronovii (used like rough hawkweed and considered fully as useful as H. venosum), were valued as astringent and stimulating remedies for internal hemorrhage, excessive menstruation, bleeding piles and spitting of blood, and were reputed as a snake-bite remedy (King's American Dispensatory; Cook, 1869). No well-sourced Native American (tribal) use was confirmed.
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Botanical Description
Hieracium gronovii, called queendevil, Gronovius' hawkweed or beaked hawkweed, is a perennial herb of the daisy family (Asteraceae) widespread across eastern and central North America, from Ontario and New England south to Florida and the Caribbean and west to Texas. It produces a basal rosette of oblong to obovate leaves that are conspicuously hairy, especially toward the base, from which rises a slender, leafless or sparsely leafy flowering stem up to about a metre or more tall, often with milky sap. The upper part of the stem branches into an open, elongated, somewhat spike-like array of small yellow flower heads composed entirely of strap-shaped (ligulate) ray florets, as is typical of the hawkweeds and the chicory tribe. The achenes are narrowed toward the top into a beak-like apex and bear a tawny pappus of bristles for wind dispersal. The plant grows in dry, open woods, sandy fields, clearings and roadsides, flowering in late summer and autumn.
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