Scientific name: Taraxacum Section Naevosa
Species: T. maculosum, T. drucei
Common name: Dandelion
Description
Habit: Perennial.
Stems: Erect, hollow, hairless.
Leaves: All basal, moderately lobed; leaves with red colouration on leaves, as blotches which sometimes merge together.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads solitary on peduncles florets all ligulate; involucre of an inner row of long, equal bracts, and numerous shorter outer ones, without membranous edge, without a small protuberance.
Fruits: An achene, bearing, at the end of a long beak, a white pappus of unbranched hairs.
Habitat: Wet, acid grassland and roadsides.
Distribution: Occasional.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No
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