Severed Dandelion - Taraxacum severum
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Species Description
Scattered throughout the UK but mainly around the Severn catchment. It is certainly under-recorded. Habitat includes: roadside verges, hedge-banks, wasteland etc.
Quite distinctive with hairy, dirty-green leaves, blotched at the dentate edges of interlobes, midrib green with dark speckles distally, reddish proximally; petioles winged, dentate, reddish to purple and few lateral leaf-lobes (2-4) and often subdivided terminal leaf-lobes.