False Dandelion

(Pyrrhopappus carolinianus)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, branched winter annual or biennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from thickened taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternate, oblanceolate to lanceolate, acute to acumminate tips, margins entire to deeply dissected

Reproduction: Inflorescences pedunculate, head involucre round, inner bracts in 1 series, bilobed or winged, outer bracts shorter in several places, yellow

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}