Taraxacum

Dentylion
A dandelion flouer heid componed o hundreds o smawer florets (tap) an seed heid (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Faimily:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Genus:	Taraxacum Cass.
Species
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Taraxacum /təˈræksəkᵿm/ is a lairge genus o flouerin plants in the faimily Asteraceae. Thay are native tae Eurasie an North an Sooth Americae, an twa species, T. officinale an T. erythrospermum, are foond as weeds warldwide.^[1] Baith species are edible in thair entirety.^[2] The common name dentyion is gien tae members o the genus, an like ither members o the Asteraceae faimily, thay hae very smaa flouers collectit thegither intae a composite flouer heid. Each single flouer in a heid is cried a floret. Mony Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually bi apomixis, whaur the seeds are produced wioot pollination, resultin in affspring that are genetically identical tae the parent plant.

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