| Scientific Name: | Hypochaeris radicata |
| Common Name: | false dandelion |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Prickly, Glandular hairs, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Small heads arranged in a cyme, Yellow, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Perennial weed 15-60cm tall with milky sap; stems narrow and forked; leaves mostly basal, pinnately lobed (more fleshy and less severely lobed than dandelion), oblanceolate, most 6-15(-30) long x 2-5(-7_cm wide with rounded tips and short hairs; flower heads 2-2.5cm wide x 1-1.5cm high when fully open, yellow, ray florets only, penduncles green, solid, with alternating leaf-like bracts (unlike dandelion); achenes with long white feathery hairs. | |