Missouri Plants Dandelion Seeds   (Taraxacum officinale) Tracheophyta: Angiospermae: Dicot: Daisy (Asteraceae) Non-native from Eurasia Habitat: any full sun area. ID Features: yellow flowers, long lobed leaves, seeds on airy parachutes that are carried by the wind. Natural History: Dandelion is a common weed of North American lawns. Its leaves have numerous lobes and the plant has a taproot. Dandelion is completely edible and is used as salad greens in some parts of the world. The flowers produce seeds asexually so all dandelions across St. Louis are clones of one another.

The information is from: Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 5th Edition, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1998.