Taraxacum laticordatum

Taraxacum laticordatum is a dandelion microspecies of the daisy family (Asteraceae), belonging to section Ruderalia (the common dandelion aggregate, Taraxacum officinale sensu lato). It is a rosette-forming perennial herb with a stout taproot and a basal rosette of oblanceolate leaves that are pinnately lobed, the lobes often backward-pointing, with broad cordate-based terminal segments. A single bright yellow composite flower head of strap-shaped ligulate florets is borne atop a hollow, leafless, milky-sapped scape, maturing into the familiar spherical clock of plumed achenes dispersed by wind. As one of more than a hundred apomictic microspecies in the aggregate, it occupies grassland, lawns and disturbed ground, and shares the morphology and milky latex characteristic of common dandelions.