Taraxacum F.H.Wigg.

First published in Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 56 (1780)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. & Subtropical to Tropical Mountains.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil South, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Central European Russia, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Mexico, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nunavut, NW. Balkan Pen., Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Australia, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Victoria, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yukon

Introduced into:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, DR Congo, Ecuador, Eswatini, Florida, Free State, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Namibia, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Prince Edward I., Queensland, Rhode I., South Carolina, South Dakota, South Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Tuamotu, Uruguay, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2019). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2018-0094. epublication.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of Iraq

  • -   (1923). Nachträge zur Monographie der Gattung Taraxacum.
  • Dahlstedt. H. (1926). Über einige orientalische Taraxacum-Arten. Acta Horti Bergiani 9: 1–36.
  • Doll, R. (1973). Revision der Sect. Erythrosperma Dahlst. emend. Lindb. f. der Gattung Taraxacum Zinn. Teil 1, in Fedde Rep. 83: 673–740.
  • Doll, R. (1976). Revision der Sect. Erythrosperma Dahlst. emend. Lindb. f. der Gattung Taraxacum Zinn. Teil 2, in Feddes Repert. 84: 553–585.
  • Handel-Mazzetti, H.F. (1907). Monographie der Gattung Taraxacum & Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 72: 254–275.
  • Lack in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 8: 186 [2006] (2007)
  • R. Doll (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae. Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). Kew Publishing
  • Wiggers Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 56 (1780)

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Prim. Fl. Hols.: 56 (1780) nom. conserv.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 182 (1994), nom. conserv.
  • Prim. Fl. Hols.: 56 (1780)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0