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Common Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale Low plant with yellow dandelion flowers on hollow, naked flowerstalks. Leaves all basal, that is growing from the ground, and saw-toothed. Seedhead a tuft of seeds, each with a downy parachute to carry it away on the wind. A weed of lawns, roadsides and waste places. Occasional along the Riverway and Wildwood Drive. Blooms from early spring to early winter. Everybody knows dandelions. In early spring it could be confused with coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), but that plant has no leaves at flowering time, and scaly stems. In summer and fall, a number of other plants have dandelion-like flowers, but all are taller and have true stems; see field hawkweed, autumn dandelion, cat's ear and smooth hawksbeard.. |
