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dandelion: How the Common Dandelion Helps Win the Day! - 04/22/09 09:22 AM

Yes, today's photo is a weed, a common weed, known as the dandelion.
 
The dandelion is a perennial, herbaceous plant with long, lance-shaped leaves.
They're so deeply toothed, they gave the plant its name in Old French: Dent-de-lion means
lion's tooth. The flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight.
Each seed has a tiny parachute, to travel far and wide in the wind. A strong wind can carry the
parachutes miles away from the parent plant. A dandelion is really many tiny flowers
bunched together. After a dandelion blooms, each of its tiny flowers … (22 comments)

 
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