Dandelion is a perennial herb of Compositae. A flower head with white crown hairs on its seeds, which floats to a new place with the wind after flowering and breeds new life. Dandelion plants contain many healthy nutrients, such as dandelion alcohol, dandelion, choline, organic acids, inulin and so on, which have diuretic, laxative, jaundice-relieving and cholagogic effects. Dandelion contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, trace elements and vitamins. Rich in nutritional value, it can be eaten raw, fried and made into soup. It is a plant with homology of medicine and food. Basic information scientific name: Dandelion English name: dandelion Pinyin: púg yěng Latin name: Taraxaceae: Compositae alias: Pugong grass, edible dandelion, bedwetting grass, western dandelion Gongying, Fu Gongying (Qianjinfang), Ji (Tang Herbal Medicine), dandelion (Qianjinyi), dandelion (Materia Medica), Diding (Materia Medica), etc. Scolopendra, Ghost Lantern (a convenient prescription of materia medica), Ranunculus japonicus (a just prescription of materia medica), Budi (a collection of folk prescriptions), Huanghuacao, Guguding (flora of medicinal plants in Jiangsu Province), Radix Raphani (flora of traditional Chinese medicine in Sichuan Province), Notoginseng Radix (flora of medicinal plants in Hangzhou) and Veronica (Liaoning Province) bloom from March to August. Distribution: Most of them are distributed in the northern hemisphere. Distributed in northeast, north, east, central, northwest and southwest China. Born on the roadside, wasteland, garden, etc. Flower language: endless love. [Edit this paragraph] Morphology and Habits Dandelion is a perennial herb with a height of 10 ~ 25 cm and milky white. The root is long, single or branched, and the outer skin is yellow-brown. Leaves have roots, arranged in a rosette shape, narrowly oblanceolate, with large-headed pinnate or pinnate, triangular lobes, entire or with several teeth, slightly blunt or sharp apex, tapering to a stalk at the base, and slender silky hairs for those without hair. Flowering stems are shorter or equal in length than leaves, elongate when bearing fruit, and the upper part is densely covered with white beaded hairs. The head is simple, the end is about 3.5cm; Dragon; The involucral bracts are herbaceous, green, partly reddish or purplish red, with or without horns and white beaded hairs at the top; Tongue-shaped flowers are bright yellow, truncated at the top, 5 teeth, bisexual. Achenes oblanceolate, khaki or yellowish brown, with longitudinal edges and transverse tumors. The transverse tumor above the middle layer has spinous process, beak at the top and white crown hair at the top. Flowering in early spring and late autumn. Born on roadsides, fields and hillsides. Produced all over the country. The whole plant crawled on the ground, with leaves like shepherd's purse, but slightly larger, without erect stems, and flowers emerged from the center of the plant. It is not as delicate as the flowers of peaches and plums, nor as fragrant as roses, but it spreads the breath of spring and exudes tenacious vitality. It can be seen everywhere in fields, valleys, hillsides, grasslands, roadsides and river banks. "Flowers become flocs, because the wind is flying, and they fall into the wetland." Whenever early spring comes, dandelion pulls out its stems and blooms yellow flowers in the green bushes. After the flowers bloom, the white crown hairs on the seeds form fluff balls, which sway with the wind. When the seeds are ripe, they float to a new place with the wind and settle down, and give birth to a new flower dandelion. It is so humble, but it still does not forget to fly freely in the air with good wishes.