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Potato dwarfdandelion

Krigia dandelion

Also called Potato dandelion, Potato Dwarf Dandelion, Colonial Dwarf Dandelion, Tuber Dwarf Dandelion

Potato dwarfdandelion
Photo: Fritzflohrreynolds, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. & E. U.S.A.

About

Krigia dandelion, known as potato dwarfdandelion, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southeastern and south-central United States, from the Florida Panhandle to Texas and north as far as Kansas, southern Illinois, and Maryland

Krigia dandelion is a perennial herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. One plant generally produces one flower head per flower stalk, each head with 25–34 yellow or yellow-orange ray flowers but no disc flowers.

Other Krigia plants

Twoflower dwarfdandelion · Weedy Dwarf-Dandelion · Mountain dwarfdandelion · Western dwarfdandelion · Virginia dwarfdandelion · Wright's dwarfdandelion · Dwarfdandelion

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Krigia dandelion by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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