- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
- ›Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
- ›chicories, dandelions, and allies
- ›Lettuce, Chicory, Dandelion and Salsify Tribe
- ›Oxtongues, Hawkbits and Allies
Cat's-Ears
Hypochaeris
Hypochaeris is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. Many species are known as cat's ear. These are annual and perennial herbs generally bearing flower heads with yellow ray florets. These plants may resemble or be confused with dandelions and so some are called false dandelions.
Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 up to about 100. Most species are native to South America, but some are found in Eurasia and North Africa.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Hypochaeris
sectionHypochaeris
South American Cat's-Ears
sectionPhanoderis
Amblachaenium
sectionAmblachaenium
Seriola
sectionSeriola
Hypochaeris robertia
speciesHypochaeris robertia
Hypochaeris ciliata
speciesHypochaeris ciliata
Metabasis
sectionMetabasis
Hypochaeris crepioides
speciesHypochaeris crepioides
Hypochaeris claryi
speciesHypochaeris claryi
Hypochaeris facchiniana
speciesHypochaeris facchiniana
Hypochaeris stuessyi
speciesHypochaeris stuessyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Hypochaeris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51900.