Borrowdale Hawkweed (Hieracium subgracilentipes)
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Vascular plant > flowering plant > Herbaceous plant |
| Red List Status: | Endangered (Not Relevant) [EN(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 subgracilentipes |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Zahn) Roffey |
| 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: | Lake District upland endemic recorded in 8 sites and seen in small quantity in 4 sites from 2013-2023. Likely to be present on acid rock habitat elsewhere which is very common in the Lake District. All hawkweeds have declined in the Lake District due to intensive sheep grazing, so a long term and continuing decline is suspected especially as this is a high-altitude specialist with nowhere to go under climate change. Main short term problem is over-grazing. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Not recorded in England since 1964. |
| 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: | Yes |
| Justification: | main requirement is reduction in grazing at landscape scale |
Species Assessment
Not relevant as no Key Actions defined.
Key Actions
No Key Actions Defined
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.