Roffey's Hawkweed (Hieracium pollichiae)

Key Details

Taxonomic Groups: Vascular plant > flowering plant > Herbaceous plant
Red List Status: Vulnerable (Not Relevant) [VU(nr)]
D5 Status: Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022)
Section 41 Status: (not listed)
Taxa Included Synonym: (none)
UKSI Recommended Name: Hieracium pollichiae
UKSI Recommended Authority: Sch.Bip.
UKSI Recommended Qualifier: (none specified)
Red List Citation: in Stroh et al., 2014
Notes on taxonomy/listing: (none)

Criteria

Question 1: Does species need conservation or recovery in England?
Response: No
Justification: Now assessed as Least Concern (Rich 2025 in press). In Britain is largely confined to the Weald where still locally frequent (Shaw 2020); analysis of Shaw's database shows 14 records 2000-2019.
Question 2: Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions?
Response: No
Justification: Not currently as Least Concern with little evidence of decline
Question 3: At a landscape scale, would the species benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages?
Response: No
Justification: Unknown at this stage

Species Assessment

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Acknowledgment:
Data used on this website are adapted from Threatened species recovery actions 2025 baseline (JP065): Technical report and spreadsheet user guide (Natural England, 2025). Available here.