Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum Zahn

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Taxonomy: Fam. Compositae// Genus: Hieracium// Species: Hieracium racemosum Willd.// Subspecies: Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum Zahn.

Literature used for determination: Hayek (1928-1931), Gajić (1975 in Josifović), Sell and West (1976 in Tutin et al.), Stoyanov, Raycheva & Cheschmedzhiev (2021).

Lifeform: Perennial plant. Hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: Native to Italy and the Balkan Peninsula according to The Euro+Med PlantBase (Greuter, W. 2006+) and the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat:  Recorded in European beech forest near the Shtalkoviha River waterfall, at c. 900 m a.s.l.

Flowering period: Fall.

Locality: Probishtip – Shtalkovichka River waterfall. Date: 02.11.2025.

Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – flowering stem. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – florets of capitulum. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – involucre. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – involucre and peduncle. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – involucre and peduncle. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – fruiting capitulum. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – fruiting capitula. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – achenes. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – involucre and peduncle. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – involucre and peduncle. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem with cauline leaves. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem with cauline leaves. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem and adaxial side of cauline leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem and adaxial side of cauline leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem and adaxial side of cauline leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem and abaxial side of cauline leaves. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – stem and abaxial side of cauline leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – lower part of stem and petiole of leaf of the pseudo-rosete. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – lower part of stem and lower leaves forming a false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – lower part of stem and lower leaves forming a false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – false rosette leaves. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – false rosette leaves. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – false rosette leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – false rosette leaf. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – adaxial side of leaf of the false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – abaxial side of leaf of the false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – abaxial side of leaf of the false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – abaxial side of leaf of the false rosette. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – median nerve with hairs. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – petiole with hairs. Probishtip: Shtalkovichka River waterfall, 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

Scaled images and close-ups: Probishtip – Shtalkovichka River waterfall. Date: 02.11.2025.

Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, Shtalkovichka River waterfall, collected 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, Shtalkovichka River waterfall, collected 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, Shtalkovichka River waterfall, collected 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, Shtalkovichka River waterfall, collected 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, Shtalkovichka River waterfall, collected 02.11.2025. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum. Flowering capitulum (left), fruiting capitula (center) and achenes (right). Scale in mm. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – indumenrum of involucre and peduncle. Scale in cm. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum – indumentum. A: adaxial side of leaf. B: abaxial side of leaf. C, D and E: adaxial side of false rosette leaf. F, G, H: abaxial side of false rosette leaf. I: petiole of false rosette leaf. J, K and L: upper, middle and lower part of stem. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Gajić, M. 1975. Rod Hieracium L. In Josifović, M. (ed.), Flora SR Srbije, VII. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti, Beograd, pp. 336-465.

Hayek A. 1928–1931. Hieracium L., Prodromus florae peninsulae Balcanicae, 2. Band: Dicotyledoneae Sympetalae. — Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 30(2), pp. 864–1049. [1–96 (1928), 97–336 (1929), 337–576 (1930), 577–1152 (1931)].

Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum. Greuter, W. 2006+: Compositae (pro parte majore). – In: Greuter, W. & Raab-Straube, E. von, Compositae. Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published at https://europlusmed.org/. https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/05f19b6a-f394-48f2-be70-0155379b5426 [Accessed 10.08.2026].

Hieracium racemosum subsp. italicum Zahn. Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77253756-1 [Accessed 10.08.2026].

Sell, P. D. & West., C. 1976. Hieracium L. (incl. Pilosella Hill.). In Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (eds.), Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 358–410.

Stoyanov K., Raycheva Ts. & Cheschmedzhiev I. 2021. Key to the native and foreign vascular plants in Bulgaria. Agricultural University Plovdiv Academic Press (in Bulgarian).