Taraxacum montanum
Taraxacum montanum
Dağ hindibası
Plant stout; leaves big and mostly broad, hairy, mostly lobate; side lobes mostly spreading. Involucre up to 2.5 cm long, outer phyllaries very numerous, broadly ovate, imbricate, spreading, pruinose and with a large margin. Ligules pale yellow. Achenes 7-8.5 mm, tuberculate, spinulose at apex; cone cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 mm; beak c. 15 mm; pappus white, 9-10 mm. 2n=40. Fl. 7-8. Rocky slopes, often in damp places, 1250-2800 m.
Caucasia, N. Iraq, N. Iran, Transcaspia. Ir.-Tur. element.
