Taraxacum ceratophorum (Ledeb.) DC.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Similar to no. 3 [Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg], avg a little less robust; scape arising laterally, not terminal (unique among our spp.) lvs with a broadly winged petiolar base, often less lobed, commonly glabrous or nearly so; heads sometimes a little smaller; invol bracts, at least the inner, commonly corniculate, the outer appressed to loosely spreading, from much shorter than to nearly as long as the inner, and often wider; 2n=16, 32. Meadows and other moist places in the mts.; circumboreal, s. at high altitudes to N.H., Mass., and N.M. July, Aug. (T. lapponicum; T. latilobum, misapplied)
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Common Names
northern dandelion