MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Daisies 289

Pilosella officinarum F. W.Schultz & Schultz ‘Bipontinus’
Hieracium pilosella Linnaeus
mouse-ear hawkweed
temperate and subarctic Europe, western Asia; introduced into
North America, New Zealand
Usually known simply as ‘mouse-ear’ and a cause of the misattribution of
records to mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium spp.) or forget-me-not (the
generic name of which,Myosotis,has the same meaning),Pilosella offici-

Pilosella officinarum,

mouse-ear hawk-

weed (Fuchs 1543,

fig. 343)