Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg.

Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg.

Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common dandelion

English name: common dandelion

English name: dandelion

Spanish name: diente de león

French name: pissenlit vulgaire

Italian name: Tarassaco comune

German name: Wiesen-Löwenzahn

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. ceratophorum (Ledeb.) Schinz ex Thell.
2) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. officinale
3) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. vulgare (Lam.) Schinz & R. Keller, nom. inq.
4) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. var. palustre (Lyons) Blytt p.p.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Taraxacum
Species:

Page counter: 3495 ( AVG: 221.48 / 290.24 )

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Taraxacum officinale
Flowering habit at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Taraxacum officinale
Seedhead at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Isola di Torcello, alle spalle della basilica., VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
NPS Photo - JW Stockert - 1960 - Public domain image.

Taraxacum officinale
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Taraxacum officinale
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Campus Universitario, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
Flower at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Taraxacum officinale
Flowering habit with jacaranda flowers at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Credit: Photo by Angelo Mazzoni

Taraxacum officinale
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Taraxacum officinale
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Taraxacum officinale
Leaves at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Taraxacum officinale
Flowering and seeding habit at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Taraxacum officinale
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Strada Vicentina, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Taraxacum officinale
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Taraxacum officinale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Campus Universitario, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg.
Map for Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. officinale [300]
2) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. vulgare (Lam.) Schinz & R. Keller, nom. inq. [181]
3) Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. var. palustre (Lyons) Blytt p.p. [162]
4) Taraxacum palustre (Lyons) Symons var. vulgare (Lam.) Fernald, nom. inq. [273]
5) Taraxacum pellianum A.E. Porsild [90]
6) Taraxacum purpuridens Dahlst. [152]
7) Taraxacum scopulorum (A. Gray) Rydb. [145]
8) Taraxacum xanthostigma Lindb. f. [91]
9) Taxiphyllum howellianum H.A. Crum & L.E. Anderson [95]
10) Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich. var. nutans (Aiton) Sweet [172]

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