Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae)

Taraxacum officinale
(Asteraceae)

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Species description or overview	Taxonomy & nomenclature	Impacts	Images	Voucher specimens
Distribution	Books	Full-text articles	Bibliography

Species description or overview

Taraxacum officinale information from PIER
Information on Taraxacum officinale as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Taraxacum officinale
Nomenclatural information about Taraxacum officinale is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Taraxacum officinale
Nomenclatural information about Taraxacum officinale is provided by ITIS.

IPNI nomenclature info for Taraxacum officinale
Nomenclatural information about Taraxacum officinale is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae): species information from GCW
Information on Taraxacum officinale as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Images

Images of Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae) (common dandelion, laulele, lauhele)
Links to high-resolution free images of Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae) (common dandelion, laulele, lauhele) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Taraxacum officinale
plants, Hawaii, Smithsonian, Stylosanthes scabra

Taraxacum officinale images from PIER
Images of Taraxacum officinale provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Voucher specimens

Images of voucher specimens for Taraxacum officinale from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA)
Images of voucher specimens of Taraxacum officinale from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA) are available online.

Distribution

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Taraxacum officinale
plants, Hawaii, Smithsonian, Stylosanthes scabra

Books

Weeds of the West

Whitson, Tom D., Larry C. Burrill, Steven A. Dewey, David W. Cudney, B.E. Nelson, Richard D. Lee, and Robert Parker. Whitson, Tom D. (ed.) 2001. Weeds of the West. 9th ed. Laramie: University of Wyoming. ISBN: 0-941570-13-4. ISSN: (unknown or N/A).

Full-text articles

Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research

Stone, Charles P., Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (eds.) 1992. Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit. ISBN: 0-8248-1474-6. ISSN: (unknown or N/A).

Bibliography

References for Taraxacum officinale
Bibliographic references for Taraxacum officinale are provided by HEAR.

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