181 Dandelion Taraxacum officinale Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North and South America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide. Both species are edible in their entirety. The common name dandelion (from French dent-de-lion, meaning "lion's tooth") is given to members of the genus, and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant. 36213 Dandelion 181.jpg image/jpeg 386051 2012-04-20T09:37:01Z 192 Herbs and Spices Herbs Type 1 2011-02-09T00:37:24Z 2019-05-14T18:04:18Z false specific 50225 true FOOD00181