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Taraxacum atrans

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
C. Asia to Mongolia and W. Himalaya
Climate
temperate

About

Taraxacum atrans is a species of terrestrial, perennial, herb in the family Asteraceae native to the region from central Asia to Mongolia and West Himalaya.

How to grow it

It can be cultivated in moist or well drained, gravelly, humus-rich soil under bright conditions.

Where it grows

It is native to Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India, where it occurs in alpine pastures, stony slopes, gravel beds, and alpine salt-marshes.

Other Taraxacum plants

Hampshire Dandelion · Japanese dandelion · Taraxacum algarbiense · Taraxacum angustisectum · Taraxacum aphrogenes · Arctic Dandelion · Taraxacum azzizii · Taraxacum balticum · Double Horn Dandelion · Taraxacum brachyceras · Purple Bracted Dandelion · Taraxacum brachyphyllum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Taraxacum atrans 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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