Pink Hawk's Beard, Hawksbeard

Pink Hawksbeard is to be seen in Puglia Southern Italy where I live. It's Pink flowers Are in bloom from mid April.

For me...Read More the most distinctive characteristic is that only certain people can smell it's perfume.

Im one of those people. The smell for me is very sweet but I can not draw a comparison with another plant or thing.

If I ask a friend to smell it they might say it's a faint smell of cut grass, but for me it's like an over perfumed bar of soap.

In ancient local food law it's leaves are edible.

love this, beautiful pink blossoms lasted for many weeks and gave me lots of seeds to trade.

An annual that resembles a pink dandelion. The pink-ish flower heads, usually darker at their centers, bloom on relatively long stems ari...Read Moresing from clumps of lance-shaped, toothed leaves. Like dandelion, it produces plumed seeds.

Annual or short lived perennial from Southern Italy and Crete. Has lance shaped toothed leaves which are slightly hairy and pale green, ...Read Moreup to 6 inches long.

Pink double flowers with oblong shaped petals.