| 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, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Silver, Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Weed; leaves narrow with pointed lobes, tips of lobes arching towards plant; stem is pale green, thick, fleshy and hollow; flower large yellow head of ray and disc florets; fruit white, furry ball of seeds (achenes/ cypselas). | |