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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in
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In message , FragileWarrior
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in
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"FragileWarrior" wrote in message

I can't get that newsgroup but I wondered if it was one of those
dandelions with multiple heads that I find around here sometimes.
No
one ever believes me about them.

There is a plant that many people call a dandelion but it has the
common name of 'flatweed' or 'catsear' - Hypochoeris radicata. It
has
dandelion like leaves, dandelion like flowers but multiple stems on
whcih it flowers.
http://web.mit.edu/cfox/www/flowers/...1_hypochoeris-
radicata_
Med.jpg.10.html




No, we went through this last time I mentioned them. This is a
dandelion
that has mulitple heads like a co-joined human twin does. Not a lot of
heads on different stems but a mishapen mass of heads on one stem. The
stems are wider, too, to match the number of heads. They are
Dandelions.

That description matches fasciated dandelions. They're not particularly
rare.

Maybe not but I must be the only one who sees them since no one ever
knows what I'm talking about and insists I'm seeing something else.

Seriously though, I think that that name was mentioned before. I just
forgot it. Duh. When it is other flowers does the name "facinated"
still apply?

Yes. Do a google image search for fasciated dandelion and fasciated
specimens of several other species turn up.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley