Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Taraxacum eriopodum DC. trib. Cichorieae |
Bibliography | Prodr. 7: 147 (1838) |
Native Range | Afghanistan to China and Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 2000-5300m |
Description | leaves glabrous or sparsely hirsute, pinnatipartite, lateral segments broad, deltate, terminal segment, large, scapes arachnose-pubescent, involucre dark green, 9-12mm wide |
Size | 5-12cm |
Color | lemmon yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C |
Synonyms | Leontodon eriopodon D.Don Taraxacum wattii Hook.f. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (ASS Assam, EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |