| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state; likely in every county. First collected in 1913 in a lawn by the medical building, UNC-Chapel Hill, Orange County.
Native of Eurasia; in N.A. throughout the eastern states and western states, scarce in the middle states and in Canada. | |
| Abundance | Generally common to abundant in the Coastal Plain, Sandhills, and Piedmont; infrequent to frequent in the Mountains. | |
| Habitat | Dry to moist roadsides, railroad margins, fields, meadows, campus weed, lawn weed, vacant lots, waste ground, clearings. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-October. | |
| Identification | Hairy Cat's-ear is often common enough that folks mistakenly call it "dandelion". Its leaves -- essentially a basal rosette -- are shallowly lobed and rough-hairy, not deeply lobed and smooth as in Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale); it leaves have a rounded tip, vs. an arrowhead or triangular tip of the leaves in that species. The heads of dandelion are much broader and more rounded on top. From Smooth Cat's-ear (H. glabra) it is best told by the rough hairy leaves (vs. smooth leaves in H. glabra). | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
