Leontodon taraxacoides, (Vili.) Merat

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 315

25. L. taraxacoides (Vili.) Mérat , Ann. Sci. Nat. 22: 108 (1831).

Stems 1-numerous, 2-5-35 cm, simple, with few to numerous simple eglandular or long-stalked 2- to 3-fid hairs; bracts 0-2. Leaves 20-150(-250) x 3-10 mm, narrowly oblanceolate to oblongoblanceolate, obtuse to acute, entire, dentate to pinnatifid, attenuate into a short or long petiole, with numerous rigid, simple eglandular or long-stalked 2- to 3-fid hairs. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 7-11 x4-9 mm; bracts narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acute, with few to numerous, rigid simple eglandular or longstalked 2-fid hairs. Ligules deep yellow, the outer greyish-violet on the outer face. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 4-5-5 mm, brown, transversely muricate, of 2 kinds: outer curved and with a pappus of small scarious scales; inner more or less beaked, with the pappus-hairs in 2 rows, the outer rigid and simple, the inner plumose. S., W. & C. Europe. Al Au Az Be BI Br Co Cz Ga Ge Gr Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Tu [Da Su].