Dandelion

Scientific Name:   Taraxacum officinale


Non-native perennial imported by European settlers. Leaves eaten as greens; flowers and leaves used as tea. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Dandelion


Genus species: Taraxacum officinale
Common Name: Dandelion
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:A. Swanson
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