Yellow quail cabbage, also known as hairy Lianlian, wild mustard fujian, yellow flowering branch herb, wild green cabbage, is a yellow quail cabbage genus annual herb in the family Asteraceae. Stem erect, leaf oblanceolate, head small, yellow flowers. Jiangnan all over the universal wild, for wild vegetables to eat. Distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

Annual or biennial herb, 10-60 cm tall, with milky sap on the plant body and fertile, white fibrous roots. The stem is erect, with one to several branches from the base.

Basal leaves clustered, oblanceolate, lyre-shaped or pinnatifid, 8-14cm long, 1-3cm wide, terminal lobe slightly larger than lateral lobes, lateral lobes tapering downward, with deep undulate teeth, glabrous or finely softly hairy, petiole winged or obscurely winged; cauline leaves alternate, a few, usually 1-2, rarely 3-5, with the same leaf shape as the basal leaves, equitipartite or indehiscent, small or smaller; distal Leaves small, linear, bractlike; leaf texture thin, finely pilose above, densely tomentose below

Yellow quailwort

hairy. Heads small and narrow, long pedicellate, arranged in cymose paniculate clusters; involucre 4-7mm long, glabrous, outer bracts 5, triangular or ovate, small in shape, inner bracts 8, lanceolate; ligulate flowers yellow, 4.5-10mm long, corolla apex 5-toothed, tube 2-2.5mm long, finely shortly softly hairy. Achenes reddish brown or brown, about 2mm long, slightly flattened, with uneven longitudinal ribs of 1 to 13; crown hairs white, and achenes nearly as long. Flowering and fruiting from April to November.

These two pictures are the difference between the dandelion and the yellow quail above you can compare