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Taraxacum balticum

Taraxacum balticum
Photo: Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0

Taraxacum balticum is a European perennial dandelion relative in the daisy family, a wild plant rather than a commonly grown garden species. It spreads and persists much like common dandelion, so it is usually managed rather than cultivated.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during dry spells; it tolerates average garden moisture once established.
Soil
Ordinary garden soil, tolerates a range of soils including poor ones.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates, tolerating cold winters; limited data on precise limits.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Taraxacum balticum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae.

Its native range is Europe.

Other Taraxacum plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Taraxacum balticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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