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Taraxacum arcticum is a moderately long-lived perennial with a whitish taproot and a rosette of five to eight green leaves, sometimes growing solitarily and sometimes somewhat matted. The leaves are 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 in) long and 1 to 1.5 cm (0.4 to 0.6 in) wide, and have several deep lobes and a long triangular final lobe.
Five dandelion flowers are the emblem of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. [81] The citizens celebrate spring with an annual Dandelion Festival. [82] The dandelion is the official flower of the University of Rochester in New York State, and "Dandelion Yellow" is one of the school's official colors. "The Dandelion Yellow" is an official ...
Taraxacum ceratophorum, also known as the horned dandelion, is a species of flowering plant within the genus Taraxacum and family Asteraceae. [1] This alpine species has a preference for mountainous habitat, where it can be found growing at elevations up to 3000 meters above sea level. [ 2 ]
Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, [6] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae. The common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruits that disperse in the wind. These balls are called "clocks" in both British and American ...
T. californicum has green, red-veined, lobed or toothed leaves and yellow flower heads yielding brown and white fruits. There are fewer than 20 occurrences known of the plant, and several occurrences include just a few individuals. [3] The plant can hybridize with the common dandelion, causing genetic pollution. [3]
The plant is sometimes called fall dandelion, because it is very similar to the common dandelion (one of the main differences being a branched stem with several capitula [5]), but "yellow fields", covered by this plant appear much later than dandelions, towards the autumn in the Eastern Europe.
Like other members of its genus, Malacothrix glabrata has a milky sap and daisy-like flower heads.The plants grow to 15 to 40 cm (5 to 15 in) tall. The leaves are 6.5–12.5 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 –5 in) long, with stringy lobes. [1]
Taraxacum albidum is a species of dandelion that grows in eastern Eurasia. [1] A member of the Asteraceae, it is a perennial herbaceous plant native to southern Japan.. It is sometimes mistaken for Taraxacum coreanum, but T. coreanum grows wild chiefly in the Korean Peninsula and some parts of China.