Taxon: Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg. aggr.

• used here in an aggregate sense
• application of this name debatable

Common names:

• common dandelion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dandelion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• lion's-tooth   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• dent de lion   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• pissenlit vulgaire   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Löwenzahn   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• dente-de-leão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• achicoria amarga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• amargón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• diente de león   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (extracted from roots fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop diseases; crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 841-842. 1997)
  
• Bee plants   (fide F Int Apico)
  
• Human food: beverage base; vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):475. 1999)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):475. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

Distributional range:

• origin Eurasia

• widespread temperate weed

References:

• American Phytopathological Society. 1988. Compendium of grape diseases. In: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series. (Diseas Comp) 51.
• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR) [lists as T. officinale Weber ex F. H. Wigg.].
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [lists as T. officinale Weber ex F. H. Wigg.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Fernald, M. L. 1948. Rhodora 50:216. [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) 361. [lists as T. officinale F. H. Wigg.].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal) [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. (WorldWeeds)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [lists as T. officinale F. H. Wigg.].
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains) [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio) [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos. (F Int Apico)
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):475.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US) [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Shinners, L. B. 1949. Field & Lab. 17:13–15.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace) [lists as T. officinale F. H. Wigg.].
• Stafleu, F. & R. S. Cowan. 1988. TL-2 7:129. [suggests authorship "Weber ex F. H. Wigg." for this publication].
• Stewart-Wade, S. M. et al. 2002. Biology of Canadian weeds. 117. Taraxacum officinale G. H. Weber ex Wiggers. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 82:825–853.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [lists as T. officinale Weber].
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich) [lists as T. officinale F. H. Wigg.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Taraxacum officinale aggregate.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Taraxacum officinale aggregate. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Leontodon taraxacum L.
  
• (=) Taraxacum dens-leonis Desf.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Taraxacum vulgare Schrank
  

Check other databases for Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg. aggr.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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