Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wiggers (Q3187)

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Taraxacum officinale is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum
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Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wiggers
Taraxacum officinale is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum

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    taxon/id/Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wiggers
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    Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wiggers
    Taraxacum officinale
    F.H. Wiggers
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    pissenlit officinal (French)
    common dandelion (English)
    dandelion (English)
    Common dandelion (English)
    pissenlit officinal (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Catling, P.M., D.S. Erskine & R.B. MacLaren. 1985. The Plants of Prince Edward Island with new records, nomenclatural changes, and corrections and deletions. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Ottawa. Publication 1798. 272 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Labrador, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
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    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
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    Kotanen, P.M. 2005. List of the Vascular Plants of Akimiki Island, Nunavut Territory. www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/akimiskiflora/akiplants.doc (consulted 2010-08) http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/akimiskiflora/akiplants.doc
    Greenland, GL
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    Böcher, T.W., B. Fredskild, K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. 1978. Grønlands Flora. P. Haase & Søns Forlag, København. 326 pp.
    Greenland
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Europe
    also in Mexico
    nearly worldwide
    Flowering nearly year-round (fall–spring, south; spring or summer, north).
    low places
    roadsides
    waste grounds
    disturbed banks
    shores
    0–2000+ m
    Plants (1–) 5–40 (–60) cm;
    taproots seldom branched.
    Stems 1–10+, erect or ascending, sometimes ± purplish (usually equaling or surpassing leaves), glabrous or sparsely villous, slightly more so distally.
    Leaves 20+, horizontal to erect;
    petioles ± narrowly winged;
    blades oblanceolate, oblong, or obovate (often runcinate), (4–) 5–45 × (0.7–) 1–10 cm, bases attenuate to narrowly cuneate, margins usually shallowly to deeply lobed to lacerate or toothed, lobes retrorse, broadly to narrowly triangular to nearly lanceolate, acute to long-acuminate, terminals ± as large as distal laterals, ultimate margins toothed or entire (secondary lobules irregular, perpendicular to retrorse), teeth minute to pronounced apices acute to acuminate or obtuse, faces glabrous or sparsely villous (commonly on midveins).
    Calyculi of 12–18, reflexed, sometimes ± glaucous, lanceolate bractlets in 2 series, 6–12 × 2.8–3.5 mm, margins very narrowly white-scarious, sometimes villous-ciliate distally, apices acuminate, hornless.
    Involucres green to dark green or brownish green, tips dark gray or purplish, campanulate, 14–25 mm.
    Phyllaries 13–18 in 2 series, lanceolate, 2–2.8 mm wide, margins scarious (proximal 2/3) to narrowly scarious, apices acuminate, erose-scarious, usually hornless (seldom appendaged), callous.
    Florets 40–100+;
    corollas yellow (orange-yellow), 15–22 × 1.7–2 mm (outer).
    Cypselae olivaceous or olive-brown, or straw-colored to grayish, bodies oblanceoloid, (2–) 2.5–2.8 (–4) mm, cones shortly terete, 0.5–0.9 mm, beaks slender, 7–9 mm, ribs 4–12, sharp, faces proximally smooth to ± tuberculate, muricate in distal 1/3;
    2n = 24, 40, [16, 32].