Its root system is very long, usually half the height of plants. There is white milky juice, which has certain toxicity and can cause skin itching, redness and other adverse reactions.
Flowers look like chrysanthemums, with tongue-shaped heads, bell-shaped involucres and dense flower clusters, usually with 2-3 bracts. In addition, when the flowers mature, they will grow seeds with white crown hairs on them. At this time, the dandelion flower looks like a white spherical plush toy.
Growing habits:
The flowering and fruiting period of Taraxacum mongolicum is from April to June, and it is 65438+ 10, which is widely distributed in hillside grassland, roadside, fields and river beaches in middle and low altitude areas. Strong adaptability, strong resistance and rapid growth. Cold and heat resistance, drought resistance and waterlogging resistance. The optimum temperature for seed germination is 15-25℃, and the optimum temperature for seed growth is 20-22℃.
Morphological characteristics:
Perennial herbs. The root is slightly conical and curved, with a length of 4 ~ 10 cm, brown surface shrinkage, and brown or yellow-white plush on the root crown. The leaves are obovate-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4-20cm long and 1-5cm wide. The apex is blunt or acute, and the edge sometimes has wavy teeth or pinnately parted, sometimes pinnately parted or pinnately parted, and the top lobe is relatively large.
Triangular or triangular halberd-shaped, entire or dentate, 3-5 lobes on each side, triangular or triangular-lanceolate, usually dentate, spreading or inverted, with small teeth sandwiched between lobes, tapering at the base into petioles, petioles and main veins often reddish purple, sparsely white or almost hairless.