Taraxacum
| Dentylion | |
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| A dandelion flouer heid componed o hundreds o smawer florets (tap) an seed heid (bottom) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Faimily: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Taraxacum Cass. |
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Taraxacum /təˈræksəkᵿm/ is a lairge genus o flouerin plants in the faimily Asteraceae. Thay are native tae Eurasie an North an Sooth Americae, an twa species, T. officinale an T. erythrospermum, are foond as weeds warldwide.[1] Baith species are edible in thair entirety.[2] The common name dentyion is gien tae members o the genus, an like ither members o the Asteraceae faimily, thay hae very smaa flouers collectit thegither intae a composite flouer heid. Each single flouer in a heid is cried a floret. Mony Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually bi apomixis, whaur the seeds are produced wioot pollination, resultin in affspring that are genetically identical tae the parent plant.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ "Taraxacum". Flora of North America.
- ↑ "Wild About Dandelions". Mother Earth News. Archived frae the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 5 Julie 2013.