Orange-flowered dandelion
StarTaraxacum croceiflorum
Safety at a glance
No rule in our tables for this herb: pregnancy, breastfeeding, incompatible pairs (十八反 / 十九畏), herb–drug, dose ceiling. This is not a safety clearance.
Not graded — No toxicity grade is recorded. Most herbs in the catalogue carry none.
Traditionally used for
- Urinary & fluids
Western Herbalism Properties
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Botanical Description
Taraxacum croceiflorum is an orange-flowered dandelion, one of the many apomictic microspecies that make up the Taraxacum officinale aggregate of the daisy family (Asteraceae). Like other dandelions it is a perennial herb with a stout, fleshy taproot and a basal rosette of lobed, more or less runcinate (backward-toothed) leaves that exude a milky white latex when broken. From the centre of the rosette arise one or more hollow, leafless flowering stalks, each bearing a single composite head. As the epithet croceiflorum (saffron-flowered) suggests, the ligulate florets are a deep orange to saffron rather than the usual bright yellow. The head matures into the familiar globe of plumed achenes dispersed by wind.
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