Hieracium spilophaeum
Spotted hawkweed
Also known as Hieracium maculatum
- Height × spread
- 0.3m × 0.4m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
Availability
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About this plant
This plant has very distinctive leaves which are quite large, arching and conical. The plant makes rosettes of foliage. The leaves have maroon blotches and spots on the green-blue surface. The leaf-edge is spikily toothed in parts. A long slender flowering raceme appears from the centre of the clump which is really rather irrelevant as an ornamental feature.
- Foliage colour
- Blue, Green, Purple
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Fan
- Height
- 0.3m
- Spread
- 0.4m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Seaside garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil, Dry soil, Drought resistant
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water in dry periods
Established plants in the ground can cope with 7-10 days of dryness, and shrubs often manage 2 to 3 weeks. Water one section of the garden thoroughly each day rather than a little everywhere. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather.
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.
Spring-Autumn · Planting
Prune to remove flowers
Note: Foliage or flowers? Where luxurious foliage is required, or the flowers are not, to some people, especially attractive (as is often the case with hot-effect grey-foliage plants), remove developing flower stems entirely.
For plants grown for their foliage effect rather than the flowers, developing flower stems can be cut off at their base as they grow.