Taraxacum glaucanthum

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 : 335

10. T. glaucanthum group. Glabrous. Leaves 10-15 cm, few, oblanceolate, remotely sinuate-dentate or lobed, brownish- or grey-green, erect, fleshy; lateral lobes narrow, acute, patent or more or less recurved, entire or slightly dentate; terminal lobe very long, hastate. Scapes 15-25 cm, numerous, slender, erect. Capitulum 25-30 mm in diameter. Involucre 12-15 x 9-12 mm; outer bracts up to 8 mm, ovate, glaucous-pruinose with a conspicuous scarious margin, erect to appressed, corniculate. Ligules wide, pale yellow with a grey stripe. Achenes pale greyish-brown; body 3 -5-4-5 mm, narrow, spinulose in upper part; cone 1-1- 8 mm, cylindrical; beak 6-9 mm, white. Saline soils. S. part of U.S.S.R. Rs (C, W, K, E) [Au Cz Ge Hu Rm],

4 species have been recorded for Europe:

T. glaucanthum (Ledeb.) DC. , Prodr. 7: 147 (1838). Rs (E).

T. hybernum Steven , Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 29(4): 410 (1856). • Rs (К).

T. klokovii Litv. , Učeň. Zap. Khar'kivsk. Derž. Univ. 2-3: 150 (1935). • Rs (C, W).

T. kok-saghyz Rodin , Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS (Ser. 1) 1: 187 (1933). Formerly cultivated in E. & E.C. Europe for its latex and locally naturalized. [Au Cz Ge Hu Rm Rs (W, K, E).] (C. Asia.)