| Accepted name: |
Taraxacum officinale G. Weber ex Wiggers |
| Synonym(s): |
-Leontodon taraxacum L.
-Taraxacum vulgare (Lam.) Schrank
-Taraxacum taraxacum Karst.
-Taraxacum dens-leonis Desf.
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| English names: |
Common Dandelion
Blowball
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| French names: |
Pissenlit officinal
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
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| OPL Code: |
HTAROF
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
P |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
The green or blanched young leaves are used in salads, cooked in soups or prepared as spinach. The roots are eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable, and used dried and roasted as a coffee substitute. The young flower-heads are sometimes used as capers, and the open flower-heads for the making of wine.(1) |
| Key Characters: |
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