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Scientific Name: | Taraxacum officinale |
Common Name: | dandelion |
Family Name: | Asteraceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Herb, Medicinal plant, Wildlife food |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Oct |
Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Green-yellow, Brown, Silver, Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
Key ID Features: | |
Common weed exuding a milky latex when broken; leaves basal, most narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, most 4-40cm long x 1-8cm wide, pinnately lobed with tips arching towards centre of plant; flower heads 4-6cm wide, ray and disk florets yellow, peduncle pale green, thick, fleshy and hollow, most 5-40cm tall; cypsela white, like a furry ball of seeds. |