1, The picture shows the dandelion leaves in the growing stage.

2, the picture is the mature stage dandelion leaves.

Dandelion belongs to Asteraceae, dandelion perennial herb. Root conical, surface brown, wrinkled, leaf edge sometimes with undulate teeth or pinnately parted, base tapering into petiole, petiole and main veins often reddish purple, scape upper purple-red, densely arachnid white villous; head, involucre campanulate, achene dark brown, long crown hairs white, flowering and fruiting period of April to October.

The dandelion is also known as the yellow flower groundnut, mother-in-law, Hua Hua Lang. Asteraceae perennial herb. Head-like inflorescences, seeds with white crown hairs knotted pom-poms, flowers after blooming with the wind to a new place to nurture new life.

Perennial herb. Roots slightly conical, curved, 4 to 10 cm long, surface brownish-brown, wrinkled, the root head with brown or yellowish-white fuzz.

The achene is obovate-lanceolate, dark brown, ca. 4-5 mm long, ca. 1-1.5 mm wide, with small spines in the upper part, and tubercles arranged in rows in the lower part, gradually contracted into a conical to terete rostrum base of ca. 1 mm long at the tip, with the rostrum ca. 6-10 mm long, slender; the crown hairs are white, ca. 6 mm long. Flowering April to September, fruiting May-October.

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