Fox and cubs

This is an uprooted plant called Pilosella aurantiaca. Commonly known as fox-and-cubs, orange hawkweed, tawny hawkweed, devil's paintbrush, grim-the-collier it is a perennial plant in the daisy family Asteraceae and is native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe. This one was growing locally in a patch of dry waste ground.

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