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§1 Plant

Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. ssp. officinale

vernacular common dandelion — subspecies · Asteraceae


USDA
TAOFO
GBIF
7337100
Rank
subspecies
common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)
Platephotograph · Paul ReevesCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Taraxacum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1,274 counties across 35 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1274 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1,274 counties across 35 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 I
Arizona view state ↗ 10 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 51 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 21 I
Georgia view state ↗ 11 I
Illinois view state ↗ 102 I
Indiana view state ↗ 45 I
Iowa view state ↗ 25 I
Kansas view state ↗ 105 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 68 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 51 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
Michigan view state ↗ 71 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 57 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 I
Missouri view state ↗ 62 I
Montana view state ↗ 1 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 41 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 I
New York view state ↗ 30 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 65 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 36 I
Ohio view state ↗ 88 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 12 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 12 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 37 I
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I
Virginia view state ↗ 100 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 40 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 12 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TAOFO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7337100 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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