Taraxacum adamii

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 : 336

16. T. adamii group. Leaves 4-25 cm, narrowly lanceolate, lobed, often bright green, rarely spotted, glabrous or hairy; lobes patent, more or less entire, terminal lobe small; petiole narrowly winged, subentire. Scapes 6-20 cm, green, purplish, stout, glabrous or slightly hairy, usually exceeding the leaves. Capitulum 30-50 mm in diameter. Involucre 12-15 x 15-18 mm; outer bracts 7-10 mm, lanceolate, dark green, sometimes pruinose, ciliate or denticulate, stiff, erect, ecorniculate. Ligules rather narrow, yellow with a grey, red or purple stripe. Achenes brown; body 3-5-4 mm, tuberculate to spinulose; cone 0-4-0-8 mm, conical; beak 8-10 mm, slender. Apomictic. Wet places. • N. & W. Europe. Be Br Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hs Lu No Rs (B) Su.

15 species have been described. The following have a relatively wide distribution:

T. adamii Claire , Bull. Soc. Bot. Rochel. 12: 49 (1891) (Г. britannicum Dahlst., T. gelertii Raunk. ). 2л = 24. Be Br Da Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Lu No Rs (B) Su.

T. litorale Raunk. , Dansk Ekskurs.-Fl. ed. 2, 256 (1906). 2л = 24. Br Da Fe Ge No Rs (B) Su.

T. nordstedtii Dahlst. , Ark. Bot. 10(11): 27 (1911). 2л = 48. Be Br Cz Da Ga Ge Hb Ho Hs Lu Su.