Common Cat's-ear
Hypochaeris radicata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- 30 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Rough Cat's Ear, Rough Cat's-Ear, Hairy Cat's-Ear, Catsear, Hairy cat's ear
Formerly Achyrophorus radicatus, Leontodon pavonii, Porcellites radicata
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Caucasus, N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: height, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Biggenkruid, Gewoon biggenkruid
- root
- HYPRAD, umkhothane, Irhwaburhwabu
- German
- Gewöhnliches Ferkelkraut
- Spanish
- Hierba del chancho, Achicoria, Diente de león
- French
- Porcelle enracinée
- Czech
- prasetník kořenatý
- Japanese
- ブタナ, タンポポモドキ
- Chinese
- 貓兒菊, 假蒲公英猫儿菊, 假蒲公英猫耳菊
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kystgrisøre
- Danish
- Almindelig Kongepen
- Finnish
- liuskahäränsilmä
- Lithuanian
- Snaudalinė džiugūnė
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Hypochaeris radicata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.