PLANTS Profile for Taraxacum laevigatum (rock dandelion)

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PLANTS Profile

Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.
rock dandelion

Symbol:

TALA2

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Asteraceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		I
AK		I
HI		I
CAN		I

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Line Drawing of Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

Leontodon erythrospermum

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 316. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

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Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

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Synonyms:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

	LEER2	Leontodon erythrospermum (Andrz. ex Besser) Britton
	TADI7	Taraxacum disseminatum G.E. Haglund
	TAER3	Taraxacum erythrospermum Andrz. ex Besser
	TALA8	Taraxacum lacistophyllum (Dahlst.) Raunk.
	TASC	Taraxacum scanicum Dahlst.

Distribution:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.


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USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NS, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT)

Related Taxa:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

View 480 genera in Asteraceae, 9 species in Taraxacum

Classification:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae – Aster family
Genus	Taraxacum F.H. Wigg. – dandelion
Species	Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC. – rock dandelion

Introduced Information:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of PFA introduced plants.

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More Accounts and Images:
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 36210.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View species account, photographs, and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

Time Generated: 05/22/2013 06:55 AM CDT