Taraxacum officinale L.

English: Common Dandelion

German: Gewöhnlicher Löwenzahn

Portuguese: Amor-dos-homens, Dente-de-leão

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Asterales (229)

        Family: Asteraceae (228)(family description)

          Genus: Taraxacum (1)

            Epithet: officinale L. (7)

officinale => of practical use to man; official species in commerce, especially for medicinal purposes

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

Check for Taraxacum officinale at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [51] Image of Taraxacum officinale - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz
• [376] Taraxacum officinale - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [709] Taraxacum officinale - Plants For A Future database
• [1214] Taraxacum - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database

• [4] Parham, B.E.V. and Healy, A.J. (1985): Common weeds in New Zealand. Hasselberg, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand.
• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.