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Food - Edible leaves in salads or cooked as greens. Roots can be roasted as a coffee substitute.
Macaronesia, Europe to Siberia, Northwest Africa
Thrives in a wide range of disturbed habitats, including lawns, pastures, roadsides, and wastelands.
It is low-growing herbaceous perennial forming a rosette of leaves. Can reach heights of 10-30 cm when flowering.
Stem is hollow, cylindrical, and leafless flower stalk.
Leaves are basal, lance-shaped with deeply toothed margins and can be 5-20 cm long.
Flowers are bright yellow, composite flower head on a single stem. Flower head is about 2-5 cm wide.
Fruit is achene with a pappus of white hairs for wind dispersal.
Flowering: Spring-Autumn.