Taraxacum
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Growing form
Perennial herb with a strong vertical rhizome.
Size
10–40 cm high.
Stem
The stem is a hollow scape with a single capitulum.
Leaf
The leaves form a basal rosette. The lamina is elongate, lanceolate – obovate, pinnately lobed or toothed, or occasionally nearly entire.
Flower
The capitulum is about 3–7 cm wide. The corollas are yellow. There are often grayish or reddish streaks on the dorsal side of the corolla of ray-florets. The phyllaries are erect and in a single row. The outer phyllaries are in a spiral arrangement around the base of the involucre, often patent or deflexed.
Fruit and seed
The achene is 3–6 mm long, tuberculate or barbed at the upper end, long-beaked. The stalk of the pappus is long, and the pappus is villous.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
- Total squares
- voikukat (Finnish)
- maskrosor (Swedish)
- voikukka (Finnish)
- Vascular plants