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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 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 .
The pappus-clad fruits that make up the familiar "dandelion clock" being dispersed by the wind (family Asteraceae) Bidens frondosa achenes with barbed pappusIn Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, [1] the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower.
[4]: 111 The flower head matures into a ball-like head of beaked achenes, each with a terminal pappus of numerous, white bristles. [5] It is the only orange-flowered species in the genus, the others typically being yellow. [3] Varieties [1] [5] Agoseris aurantiaca var. aurantiaca – most of species range
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus, commonly called Carolina desert-chicory [1] or Texas dandelion, is in the genus Pyrrhopappus of the family Asteraceae, native throughout Eastern and South Eastern United States. It is an annual found in mostly open grasslands and wet roadsides.
Taraxacum kok-saghyz is a perennial plant with a yellow composite flower characteristic of the genus Taraxacum. Each flower head may be approximately one inch in diameter and be made up for 50 to 90 florets. [6] Plants may contain 25 to 50 leaves arranged in one or more rosettes at the upper end of the root.
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.