PG04 Taraxacum officinale (L.) W.W.Weber ex F.H.Wigg.

Family Asteraceae
Genus Taraxacum
Species officinale
Author (L.) W.W.Weber ex F.H.Wigg.
Use Leaves can be eaten as a salad. Roots can be roasted and grinded, and used as a coffee substitute. Yellow dye from the flowers, red dye from the roots.
Collector Peter Giovannini
Number PG04
Date 12/03/2004
Location Roadside at 17, Regency Place, Canterbury, Kent
Common name/s Dandelion