Taraxacum serotinum

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 : 334

3. T. serotinum group. Leaves 5-15 cm, obovate-lanceolate, entire to shallowly lobed, more or less cartilaginous-denticulate, thick, fleshy, horizontal. Petiole short, wide, pale. Scapes 3-15 cm, slender, green, more or less woolly. Capitulum 30-40 mm in diameter. Involucre 10-15 x 10-15 mm; outer bracts linear, glaucous, or suffused with brown, with a pale margin, thin, soft, erect, more or less ciliate, sometimes corniculate. Ligules clear paleyellow, usuallywitha redstripe. Achenes greyish-brown; body 4-5-6 mm, fusiform, more or less smooth; beak 4-8 mm, stout; cone absent. Pappus greyish-white. Autumn-flowering. Sexual. Dry places. S.,C.& E. Europe. Au Bu Cz Ga Gr Hs Hu Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Tu.

2 species have been described for Europe:

T. pyropappum Boiss. & Reuter , Diagn. Pl. Nov. Hisp. 19 (1842) ( Г. tomentosum Lange ). • Ga Hs.

T. serotinum (Waldst. & Kit.) Poiret in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot., Suppl. 4, 420 (1817) ( T. crispum Heuffel , T. gracile Form., T. haussknechtii Uechtr. ex Hausskn. , T. neyrautii Debeaux ). 2n = 16. Au Bu Cz Ga Gr Hu Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Tu.