Bureaucrat, administrator, widgeteditor
146,870
edits
Changes
no edit summary
<big>''[[Taraxacum officinale]]'' Weber</big>
__NOTOC__
:Family: Compositae
== Vernacular names ==
*Dandelion (En). *Pissenlit, dent de lion (Fr)
*Indonesia: jombang
*Vietnam: bồ công anh, sư nha.
== Observations ==
*Perennial, stemless, polymorphous herb, up to 40 cm tall, with a long taproot, containing milky juice in all parts. *Leaves in a radical rosette, very variable, oblong-spathulate or lanceolate-spathulate, 4-35 cm × 0.75-10 cm, irregularly pinnatilobed or pinnatipartite. Not very common in the tropics and only at high altitudes (above 1200 m) where it can be cultivated as well. Propagation is by seed or by division. It prefers moist localities. Cultivars are available, e.g. "Amélioré Géant". The wild species forms a polyploid complex with enormous variability.
== Selected sources ==