Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Taraxacum sarcidanum

Common name

Dandelion

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland and grassland, rarely on disturbed urban sites. Tablelands, Kosciuszko National Park, and the mountains to the north. Formerly naturalised in the ACT..

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 0.26 m high at the seeding stage (to 0.1 m high at flowering). Flower stalks white woolly in bud, hairless at flowering except under the flower head, rose-purple at the base. Leaves 5-12 cm long, 15-30 mm wide, becoming hairless; dissected, with 4–6 pairs of pointed lateral lobes. Midribs usually light purple at the base. Leaf stalks light purple, sometimes narrowly winged. Flower heads with many yellow 'petals', 25-35 mm in diameter, oblong-bell-shaped  behind the 'petals'. Bracts surrounding the flower heads erect to pointing out or curved down, with a narrow white border (about 0.2 mm wide), margins with a narrow fringe, tips thickened or with a hard blunt tip. Flowers September to May. Seeds about 4 mm long, bright red-brown.

VICFLORA description:  https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/63b0fefc-4a0b-4d10-8f21-054900aa20e9 (accessed 3 May 2021)