I found this lonely flower in almost all the site where I found the red clover. Is it the partner of the red clover or something like that cause i saw it every time? I didn´t find information but I think it is a Taraxacum officinale? If someone has information, let me know.
Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) would be my guess. These flowers are considered weeds along roadsides and lawns and can consume entire fields. The yellow flower heads will eventually turn into white/sliver balls of fruits, which are easily blown off of the stem and dispersed great distances by the wind (or kids having fun with them) - one of the reasons that dandelions are so successful!
Sorry Jeff, I am sure, it is no Taraxacum, because the inflorescence is branched.
Where have you found the plant. nation, location, ... .
Ah, Bernd is correct. A closer look at the basal leaves also suggests this is not a Taraxacum! My apologies and thanks, Bernd, for the sharp eye!
Hi bern, well I found this flower in Bogotá Colombia. And Flavio you are right It is a leontodon!!! I saw the leaves but I never think in a leontodon here in south-america..... thats it . Thank you very much!!!
I'm not familiar with the flora of South America / Columbia. Also I do not know the distribution of Leontodon/Scorzoneroides in the world. But the leaves are a little pilose (2. pic) and autumnalis is (in Central Europe) glabrous. If the leaves are hispid, it could be Hyochaeris radicada. But the detamination by a pic is very difficult.
I think the best way is to look in a local flora or ask a local field botanist.
It would really help if you ca see some taxonomic key or some pictorial flora ...
Maybe this helps: http://www.iewf.org/weedid/Hypochoeris_radicata.htm
You may try the detweb facebook page, but Asteraceae are almost impossible to Identify without opening the flowers. But you may have some hint...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/171157419593991/
From a picture is always difficult to identify a species, especially if it is very similar to another one like in this case. You can distinguish Leontodon from Taraxacum since the latter's flowering scapes are unbranched. But both are hairless and in the second pic the leaves appear with hair. I would recommend you to consult a flora to get a proper ID of your plant.
The pics are quite good. It definitely is a member of the subfamily Cichorioideae but not Taraxacum. As mentioned above, the best educated guess is Hypochaeris closely followed by Leontodon but there are a lot of similar looking species/subspecies/species aggregates within this family. The best would be to dig out some plant to prepare herbarium samples, which can be send to a botanist.
It'd never guessed that the site is in Colombia. From the 1st pic it looks like a common nutrient-rich meadow in Central Europe.
This certainly looks like Hypochaeris radicata. According to Tropicos this has been collected several times in Colombia.
Dear L. Marian Gonzalez,
It seems some species of Launaea of the family Asteraceae. Please confirm the species by consulting the flora of the region wherefrom plants have been collected/photographed.
Good luck
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