Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Taraxacum sect. Taraxacum
Common name
Dandelion, Pissabed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Lawns, roadsides, disturbed sites, and damp native vegetation including alpine grasslands. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.4 m tall. Leaves forming a basal rosette, about 8-30 cm long, cobwebby, becoming hairless, deeply lobed, usually with complex further dissection, in the Canberra region the margins toothed. Leaf stalks and midribs green or uniformly purple. Flowers 40 mm in diameter or more, with many yellow 'petals'. Flower heads behind the 'petals' oblong-bell-shaped. The outermost bracts on the flower base erect or spreading to abruptly bent down, with no white or coloured edge. Flowers Sept.-Apr. Seeds 3.5–4 mm long, grey-brown to straw-coloured.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/79f2c8c4-6618-4ccd-bbb2-8948ae61288a (accessed 3 May 2021)
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