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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Dandelions, Hawksbeards, and Rattlesnake Roots
  8. Dandelions

genus

Dandelions

Taraxacum

Traits
Includes
2 native 6 introduced 12 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Arctic Dandelions 1 native
  • Borealia 1 native
  • Taraxacum clemens
  • Rounded-lobed Dandelion
  • Taraxacum boreum introduced
  • Gentians
  • Spotty Dandelions
  • Taraxacum Sect. Celtica
  • Knapweed
  • Dioszegia
  • Taraxacum Sect. Palustria
  • Hook-lobed Dandelions
  • Macrodonta
  • Common Dandelions
  • Stenoloba
  • Lesser Dandelions
  • Borea
  • Mexicana
  • Spectabilia
  • Taraxacum raii
  • Scariosa
  • Blow Flowers
  • Alpine Dandelions
  • Mongolica

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native dandelions All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Harp Dandelion Taraxacum scopulorum caterpillars 9 hosts 1 food 11 flowers 100
  • Horned Dandelion Taraxacum ceratophorum caterpillars 8 food 17 flowers 121
  • California Dandelion Taraxacum californicum flowers 2
  • Northern Dandelion Taraxacum phymatocarpum flowers 1

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