About
A mat-forming perennial with basal rosettes of greyish-green leaves, hairy above with downy, white-felted undersides, linked by creeping stolons. Yellow, dandelion-like flowers are borne on leafless stems about 15cm tall in summer. Subspecies bicapitata is a very rare native and is found only on Shetland. Subspecies flagellaris is not native, but is a garden escape that has become naturalised in a few sites in England and Scotland.
About the genus
A genus of herbaceous perennials spreading by rhizomes or stolons, with hariy leaves in basal rosettes, and sometimes as smaller stem leaves. The stems are topped with dandelion-like flowers, in shades of mainly yellow, sometimes orange or more rarely red or white
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