View source for Taraxacum californicum

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|accepted_name=Taraxacum californicum
|accepted_authority=Munz & I. M. Johnston
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=52: 227. 1925
|year=1925
}}
|common_names=California dandelion
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Taraxacum ceratophorum var. bernardinum
|authority=Jepson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Taraxacum;Taraxacum californicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Taraxacum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Taraxacum californicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 242, 243, 249
|treatment_page=page 248
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3.5–10(–20) cm (to 30 cm in fruit); taproots branched. <b>Stems</b> 1–10+, ascending to decumbent (at and after flowering) (occasionally erect), usually purplish, (mostly at or below foliage before fruiting) glabrous, often cobwebby-villous basally. <b>Leaves</b> 10–20, horizontal to patent; petioles usually broadly, sometimes narrowly winged; blades oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, sometimes linear-oblanceolate, 5–12 × 1–2(–3) cm, bases cuneate, margins toothed or denticulate, occasionally with basal lobes, rarely some entire, lobes straight or slightly retrorse, lanceolate to triangular-long-acuminate, teeth narrowly to broadly triangular, straight to retrorse, apices obtuse to rounded or ± acute, faces glabrate or glabrous. <b>Calyculi</b> 9–12, appressed, green, sometimes ± hyaline, often purplish, ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate bractlets in 2 series, 5–7 × 1.7–4.3 mm, margins hyaline, purplish (at least distally) or white, scarious, apices acuminate to long-acuminate or widely caudate, tips ± rounded, erose, hornless. <b>Involucres</b> green, tips purplish gray, broadly campanulate, 11–16 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 12–16 in 2 series, lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 2–3.5 mm wide, margins not or narrowly scarious, sometimes broadly so basally, hyaline, apices rounded, erose, scarious. <b>Florets</b>: corollas pale yellow, outer abaxially striped pale purplish, 9–10 × 1.5–2. <b>Cypselae</b> pale brown, bodies obovoid, flattened, 2.2–2.7 mm, cones narrowly conic, 0.5–0.7 mm, beaks slender, 6–9.5, ribs 15–16, narrow, faces muricate distal 2/3–3/4; pappi creamy, 4.5–5.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist alpine meadows in yellow pine forest zone
|elevation=1900–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Taraxacum californicum</i> is known only from the San Bernardino Range. It is easily distinguished from <i>T. ceratophorum</i> by the lack of horns on the phyllaries and bractlets of calyculi.</p>
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name=Taraxacum californicum
|authority=Munz & I. M. Johnston
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Taraxacum ceratophorum var. bernardinum
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist alpine meadows in yellow pine forest zone
|elevation=1900–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1925
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Taraxacum
|species=Taraxacum californicum
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