Key to Taraxacum
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(For a list of species in Taraxacum, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Leaves toothed or shallowly lobed,
sessile Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.
or
petioles Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.
widely winged; outer
phyllaries erect Upright; vertically oriented.
,
lanceolate Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.
to widely
ovate Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
; main phyllaries (10)12–16(17)
1' Leaves of flower plants generally sharply cut,
lobes 1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
often ± toothed or with 2° lobes, petioles ± narrowly winged; outer phyllaries
reflexed Abruptly bent or curved downward or backward.
, lanceolate; main phyllaries 13–19
3. Fruit red to ± red-brown or purple;
leaves generally sharply cut; petioles slightly winged
distally ..... T. erythrospermum 3' Fruit olive or olive-brown to straw-colored or ± gray; leaves ± widely lobed, or occasionally sharply cut; petioles ± winged
..... T. officinale
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