Dandelion is also known as yellow-flowered Xiaoding, wife-in-law, Huahualang and so on. Perennial herbs of Compositae. Head-shaped inflorescence with white crown hairs on its seeds. After bloom, it drifted to a new place with the wind to give birth to new life. The root is conical, the surface is brown and shriveled, the leaf edge sometimes has wavy teeth or pinnately parted, the base gradually narrows into petiole, the petiole and main vein are often reddish purple, the upper part of the scape is purple, and it is densely covered with spider-silk white villous; Head inflorescence, involucre bell-shaped, achene dark brown, long crown hair white, flowering and fruiting period 4 ~10 month.

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Dandelion is also known as yellow-flowered Xiaoding, wife-in-law, Huahualang and so on. Perennial herbs. The root is slightly conical and curved, with a length of 4 ~10 cm, brown and shriveled surface, and brown or yellow-white hairs on the root head.

The leaves are obovate-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, with a length of 4-20cm and a width of1-5cm. The apex is blunt or acute, and the edge is sometimes wavy or pinnately parted, and sometimes it is pinnately parted or pinnately parted. The top lobe is large, triangular or triangular-shaped, whole or toothed, with 3-5 lobes on each side. It is widely distributed in hillside grasslands, roadsides, fields and river beaches in middle and low altitude areas.