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Genus Leontodon Family Asteraceae

Synonyms: Hedypnois Mill. APNI*

Description: Annual to perennial rosette herbs, with a taproot or tuberous, with forked or stellate non-glandular hairs.

Leaves all basal, entire to pinnatifid; cauline leaves absent or reduced to small bracts.

Heads solitary or several per stem, cylindrical; involucral bracts 3-seriate, unequal, lanceolate; receptacle flat, naked, pitted. Florets all ligulate, linear to oblong.

Achenes ± cylindrical, longitudinally ribbed, transversely muricate; either inner beaked or all not beaked; pappus 1 or 2 rows or bristles, outer short and scabrid or absent, inner longer and usually plumose, sometimes reduced to short scales on outer achenes.


Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 50 species, Europe, western Asia.

Australia: 3 species (introduced ), 2 in NSW.

Text by L. Murray; updated by PG Wilson, Sept. 2019
Taxon concept:

 Key to the species 
1Leaves all basal; mature achenes brownish, beakedLeontodon saxatilis
Leaves basal and cauline; mature achenes dark, not distinctly beakedLeontodon rhagadioloides

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