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Dandelions with multiple heads
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wrote: "Joe" wrote Are you positive it's a dandelion? Just guessing, but multiple heads with dandelion-like flowers could be a type of hawkweed: http://www.joekaz.net/photos/arboret...awkweed_1.html http://www.joekaz.net/photos/arboret...awkweed_2.html http://www.joekaz.net/photos/arboret...awkweed_3.html Yep, I'm absolutely positive it's a dandelion. I wish I had a scanner so I could show you how odd they are. I dried some of them. The stem was actually about an inch wide on the biggest one -- sort of wide and flat like a lot of stems joined side by side. Then it was capped with all these heads all jumbled together, not on individual stems. They were so tightly packed sometimes, that I couldn't get a good count. Giselle (same year but in a slightly different area I also got a zinnia with two heads, a black-eyed susan with two and a co-joined cherry. There are eleven invasive species of hawkweeds introduced into the US from England. Several have the kind of multi-flowers you describe, & I think Joe has it right. What Hieracium species do not have is the big carrot taproot of a true dandylion, so they're easier to pull up root & all. Sundry species crossbreed willynilly so identifying which species of Hieracium can be difficult or impossible. Other genera that look like dandylions include Hypochoeris & Sonchus, but it is Hieracium spp that produce the multiflowered stemheads, with H. pratense the most common of the eleven invaders & the most insistant on multi-headed flowerstems, though severaql others are also likelier candidates than any Taraxacum officianale dandylion going mutant. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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