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Taraxacum ceratophorum, also known as the horned dandelion, is a species of flowering plant within the genus Taraxacum and family Asteraceae. [1] This alpine species has a preference for mountainous habitat, where it can be found growing at elevations up to 3000 meters above sea level. [ 2 ]
The flower petals, along with other ingredients, usually including citrus, are used to make dandelion wine. Its ground, roasted roots can be used as a caffeine-free coffee alternative. [62] Dandelion was also commonly used to make the traditional British soft drink dandelion and burdock, and is one of the ingredients of root beer. [63] [64]
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. These balls are called "clocks" in both British and American ...
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.
In general appearance, Agoseris is reminiscent of dandelions and are sometimes called mountain dandelion or false dandelion. Like dandelions the plants are (mostly) stemless, the leaves forming a basal rosette, contain milky sap, produce several unbranched, stem-like flower stalks , each flower stalk bearing a single, erect, liguliferous flower ...
Taraxacum albidum is a species of dandelion that grows in eastern Eurasia. [1] A member of the Asteraceae, it is a perennial herbaceous plant native to southern Japan.. It is sometimes mistaken for Taraxacum coreanum, but T. coreanum grows wild chiefly in the Korean Peninsula and some parts of China.
[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
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.