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Taraxacum dunense
Taraxacum dunense, commonly known as the dune dandelion, is a perennial herbaceous plant species in the family Asteraceae, native to northwestern Europe. It is primarily found in coastal sand-dune habitats, where it is adapted to grow in temperate biomes with sandy, nutrient-poor soils. The species was first formally described in 1956 by Dutch botanist Johannes Leendert van Soest in Acta Botanica Neerlandica. Like many members of its genus, it employs anemochory for seed dispersal, relying on wind to distribute its distinctive violet achenes.
Taraxacum dunense is native to parts of northwestern Europe, with its distribution including the British Isles—extending as far north as Anglesey in Wales and Angus in eastern Scotland—as well as Belgium, the Netherlands, and southern Sweden.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Taraxacum dunense 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.
