What does a real dandelion look like?

1. Leaves

The leaves of dandelion are oblong-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, about 4 to 20 cm long and 1 to 5 cm wide. Its tip is sharply pointed or blunt, sometimes with wavy edges or deep pinnate lobes. The lobes at the top are relatively large, triangular or triangular-halberd-shaped, and the base gradually narrows into a petiole. The petiole and main veins are usually purple-red.

2. Flowers

The dandelion has one to several peduncles, which are the same length as the leaves or slightly longer, about 10 to 25 cm high, and purple-red on the upper part. It has long spider-like white hairs, the head inflorescence is about 30 to 40 mm in diameter, involucral, about 12 to 14 mm long, the ligulate flowers are yellow, the ligules are about 8 mm long and 1.5 mm wide.