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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Taraxacum officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Taraxacum officinale

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen [& Franck], 2015 et seq.)

Taraxacum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Taraxacum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-17-002:

Taraxacum officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Leontodon taraxacum

 

COMMON NAME:
Common Dandelion


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_leta2_001_lvd

        

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_439

        

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JK Marlow    jkm0303x_16

March    Greenville County    SC

Leaves all at the base and cut into sharp, backward-pointing lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

JK Marlow    jkm110320_100

March    Pickens County    SC

Hagood Mill

Disc flowers absent. Ray flowers yellow and bisexual, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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JK Marlow    jkm110320_106

March    Pickens County    SC

Hagood Mill

Each scape is hollow and bears a single flower head, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

JK Marlow    jkm110320_111

March    Pickens County    SC

Hagood Mill

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_taraxacum_officinale

March        

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JK Marlow    jkm0404b_06

April    Greenville County    SC

Leaves numerous in a basal rosette, deeply pinnatisect to barely lobed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm0404b_06b

April    Greenville County    SC

Outer involucral bracts are reflexed and about as long as inner bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).


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JK Marlow    jkm0404o_36

April    Greenville County    SC

Single yellow flowers at the ends of long, smooth, hollow stalks, per Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992).

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JK Marlow    jkm080410_016

April    Lexington County    SC

Parking lot

Fruits olive-brown achenes, pappus a tuft of white hairlike bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

JK Marlow    jkm120403_505

April    Greenville County    SC

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

Tim Spira    tpstaraxacum_frtinghead3

April        

Olive-brown achenes are tapered at both ends, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

Tim Spira    tpstofficinale_lwgarden

April        

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_t_officinale_4

December    Floyd County    GA

image of Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_t_officinale_4b

December    Floyd County    GA

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Taraxacum officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Taraxacum officinale

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen [& Franck], 2015 et seq.)
Taraxacum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Taraxacum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-17-002:
Taraxacum officinale   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Leontodon taraxacum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1486

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Lawns, roadsides, urban areas, pastures, disturbed areas, trailsides, less commonly in a variety of less disturbed habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Common

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Absent
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Olive-brown
Achene

 

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