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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 similar to dandelion but has green penduncles with no latex; leaves are fleshy and less severely lobed than dandelion with rounded tips and short hairs; stems are very narrow, forked; flower heads 5-15mm wide; achene with long white hairs. |