Taraxacum officinale

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: Common dandelion
Symbol: TAOF
Description: Perennials, to 60 cm tall, stems hollow, 1-10 or more, erect or ascending, milky sap. Leaves subsessile, oblanceolate to obovate or oblong, to 10 cm long, margins sinuate-pinnatifid to subentire, the longer lobes toothed and with intermediate small teeth. Flower heads ligulate, florets 40-100 or more, ligules yellow, 5-toothed at the apex, row of bracts around outer calyx of 12-18, reflexed, glaucous, lanceolate bractlets in 2 series, to 12 mm long, villous-ciliate distally.