Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : tarof
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Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: common dandelion
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Löwenzahn ; ES : diente de león ; FR : pissenlit ; IT : tarassaco comune ; PT : dente-de-leao ; EN : common dandelion ; NL : paardebloem ; DK : mælkebotte
Biological type: Perennial
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, irregularly dentate.
- Height: 10-60 cm.
- Scape erect or ascending, with a single head.
- Leaves all radical confined in a basal rosette, glabrous or glabrescent, attenuate at base, runcinate, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, with lanceolate -triandular segments. Whitish latex present.
- Flower yellow. Involucre with bracts entire or denticulate, more or less horn tipped, the outer bracts spreading or reflexed. - Fruits : achenes greyish spiny tip, equalling or shorter than the beak ; pappus white, more rarely gingerish.
- Plant with an abundant nectar and eaten as green salad, bitter, used against disorders of stomach and eyes, aperitive, diuretic. This aggregate encloses plants very variable in form.
- Biological type: perennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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