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Taraxacum britannicum
British dandelion is a wild perennial dandelion found across the British Isles and parts of western Europe, growing in meadows, cliffs and pavements. It is a weedy wild species rather than a garden plant, and it is grown mainly by allowing it to persist where it naturally occurs.
Taraxacum britannicum, commonly known as the British dandelion, is a perennial agamospermous species of dandelion in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northwestern and western Europe, with a primary distribution in the British Isles, where it occurs in a variety of habitats including wet meadows, cliffs, ravines, pavements, and other disturbed or man-made environments. The species is also reported from several other European countries, particularly in Western Europe and Fennoscandia.
T. britannicum is morphologically variable, especially in leaf shape, and has often been considered a leaf-form variant of Taraxacum adamii. Despite historical recognition as a separate species, the two are now widely treated as conspecific, with shared floral and fruit characteristics and a tendency to co-occur with intermediate forms.
Taraxacum britannicum is native to the British Isles, where it is widespread throughout Britain, although becoming less frequent in the north. It inhabits a range of environments, including wet meadows, man-made habitats such as pavements, walls, and gardens, as well as natural sites like cliffs and ravines, particularly in western and northern regions. Beyond the British Isles, the species is known from Western Europe and Fennoscandia, with confirmed occurrences in countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.
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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.
