Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Taraxacum bracteatum
Common name
Dandelion
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Disturbed alpine grassland, gardens, disturbed sites, roadsides, in damp places. Kosciuszko National Park and Albury.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.35 m high at the seeding stage (to 0.2 m high at flowering). Flower stalks hairless at flowering except below the flower head, usually rose-purple throughout, usually with 1 or 2 leaf like bracts. Leaves basal, 10–25 cm long, 30–50 mm wide, dark green, becoming hairless; dissected, with 3–5 pairs of lateral pointed to hooked lobes. Leaf stalks brown-purple with interwoven strands of green and purple (visible with a X 5 lens or the macro app on your phone/tablet), winged, the wings broader closer to the leaf blades. Flower heads about 45 mm in diameter, with many yellow 'petals'. Flower heads behind the 'petals' oblong-bell-shaped. Lowermost bracts surrounding the flower heads 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, usually with torn margins, pointing up to outwards, with a narrow white-border (about 0.1 mm). Flowers Sept.–Apr. Seeds 3.5–4.5 mm long, olive-brown to straw-coloured.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/ff73a2eb-c7d7-4cb0-bab2-94664b7dae81 (accessed 3 May 2021)
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