''Hieracium megacephalum'', the coastal plain hawkweed, is a North American plant species in the tribe

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within the family

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. It grows only in the southeastern United States, in

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, and the

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.Biota of North America Program 2004 county distribution map
/ref> ''Hieracium megacephalum'' is an herb up to tall, with leaves on the stem and also in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are up to long, sometimes with teeth on the edges. One stalk can produce as many as 50 flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head has 20–50 yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.Flora of North America, Hieracium megacephalon Nash, 1895.
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megacephalum Flora of the Southeastern United States Plants described in 1895 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Cichorieae-stub