All records verified by A. J. Richards
Species Index
Date Index
The season started on the 14th March for me
14th March 2024 VC23 Arncott
Taraxacum trilobatum
SP6110 1801
VC23 Arncott
Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown)
Wide purple petioles with wide wings, hairy, blotched dirty green leaves with large teeth. Terminal lobes with lingulate tip. Bracts long and narrow.
Taraxacum angustisquameum
SP6100 1812
VC23 Arncott
Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown)
Small and prostrate with small narrow spreading / clawed bracts, dark green some blotching, short acute terminal lobes, deltoid.
Taraxacum subhamatum
SP6073 1829
VC23 Arncott
Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown)
Robust, unbordered bracts and extenuate pointy tips to the leaves. Doesn’t seem to have any colour to the ligule tips?
Taraxacum sellandii
SP6094 1820
VC23 Arncott
Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown)
Those hooked lower lobes with big teeth and wide triangular terminal lobes suggest sellandii to me. Young bracts not classic
Taraxacum cophocentrum
SP6112 1797
VC23 Arncott
Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown)
These leaves were around in February. Bracts aren’t classic
16th March 2024 VC9 Dorset
Taraxacum britannicum
SZ0277 7915
VC9 Swanage
Pavement edge
Ligule stripes brown with blackish ends, dark stigmas. Narrow edge to bracts.
Taraxacum cornubiense
SZ 0287 7916
VC9 Swanage
Under hedgerows
There were some pale plants and mid green plants – I put this down to age / soil condition. I was expecting more red on the stripes and ligule tips but none of them seemed to have that – ligule stripes were brown so perhaps that comes with age. Achenes had cones and bracts spreading / arcuate rather than erect.
Petioles green and midribs purple threaded
Taraxacum leucopodum
SZ 0286 7916
VC9 Swanage
Under hedgerows
I found this species in quite a few places. It had remarkably long twisted, multidirectional, interwoven bracts. The petioles were white with long broad wings, green midribs.
The leaves were bright green, highly crisped and lateral leaf lobes multidirectional, toothed and lecerate and some with linear processes that expanded at the end
Terminal lobes were also pretty much heterphyllous with long lingulate tip
Taraxacum lamprophyllum
SZ 0305 7920
VC9 Swanage
Unmown park
Large bordered bracts
Taraxacum hamiferum
SZ 0300 7921
VC9 Swanage
Unmown park
Small Hamata with very hooked regular lobes 'Wing-nuts' and clearly bordered bracts
Taraxacum hamatum
SZ 0270 7899
VC9 Swanage
Pavement edge
Unbordered erect spreading bracts
17th March 2024 VC5 Somerset
Taraxacum subexpallidum
ST47320 18323
VC5 Stoke-sub-Hamdon
Garage forecourt grassy area
No pollen which made me think of cherwellense - but could be due to the weather
Taraxacum atrocollinum
ST 2466 1595
VC5 Staple Hill Car Park and lots around this area
Pollen plentiful, dark styles, 3-4 lateral lobes, glabrous.
Long ovate narrowly bordered bracts
Ligule stripes pale grey lower, brown distal
Taraxacum marklundii
ST 2465 1596
VC5 Staple Hill Car Park
Taraxacum subhamatum
ST 2463 1598
VC5 Staple Hill Car Park
Interlobes blotched and narrow lobes seem bordered
Taraxacum amicorum
ST 2352 2444
VC5 Taunton Churchyard
Frequent in this churchyard and along the pavement!
Taraxacum sahlinianum
ST 2354 2446
VC5 Taunton Churchyard
A young plant
22nd March 2024 VC23 Arncott & Ambrosden
Taraxacum coartatum
SP 6114 1797
VC23 Arncott
Roadside verge
Reddish tips to inner florets and inner petioles pink
Taraxacum intumescens
SP 610 180
VC23 Arncott
Roadside verge
Taraxacum insigne
SP 6110 1802
VC23 Arncott
Roadside verge
Taraxacum planum
SP 6099 1812
VC23 Arncott
Pavement edge
Mid-dark green leaves and the lobes are quite extreme
Taraxacum sublaeticolor
SP 6098 1815
VC23 Arncott
Pavement edge
Group Alatum with some forward pointing lobes, narrow winged petioles and a single subdivision in end lobe.
Taraxacum longisquameum
SP 6092 1824
VC23 Arncott
Pavement edge
Sagittate lobes
Taraxacum dilaceratum
SP 6084 1832
VC23 Arncott
Pavement edge
Humped and lobe doubling – only a little hairy. Prostrate rosette
Taraxacum aequilobum
SP 6054 1919
22/3/2024
VC23 Ambrosden
Roadside verge
Twisted bracts
23rd March 2024 VC23 Bicester
Taraxacum horridifrons
SP 5718 2117
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Broad Alata lobes and hairy leaves. Some lobes are doubled
Taraxacum pannulatiforme
SP 5719 2118
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Dark green, no colour in petioles, crisped slight blotching to interlobes
Taraxacum boekmanii
SP 5719 2118
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Possibly the most numerous species at this location still a lot of young plants
Taraxacum acutifrons
SP 5720 2119
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Can look mid green. Bracts are triangular green above (not pruinose) – really distinctive. Distant lateral lobes with broad / humped base to long narrow processes – acute tip. Crisped blotched interlobes. Terminal lobe long / pointed lingulate with some subdivision. Long green winged petioles
Taraxacum interveniens
SP 5720 2120
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Onion spire lobes - Noticing this is quite an early species.
Taraxacum sublongisquameum
SP 5720 2119
VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride
Unmown roadside verge
Those incredible bracts and sagittate lobes
27th March 2024 VC23 Bicester
Taraxacum undulatiflorum
SP 5911 2118
VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout
Grassy verge
Similar to T chloroticum but lateral lobes not pointed enough
Taraxacum spiculatum
SP 5911 2119
VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout
Grassy verge
Its Hamata
Taraxacum densilobum
SP 5914 2117
VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout
Grassy verge
There were two adjacent plants - this is the better one
Taraxacum hamatiforme
SP 5914 2117
VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout
Grassy verge
Bright purple midrib and petioles. Distant narrow shiny lateral lobes cut to the midrib
30th March 2024 VC34 Bristol
Went over to Bristol for a few hours and met up with Dylan Peters.
Everything was very well grown here. Maybe go mid March next year
Taraxacum incisum
ST 5614 7448
VC34 Bristol
Roadside grassy verge
Taraxacum pallidipes
ST 5615 7446
VC34 Bristol
Roadside grassy verge
No bract borders and no colour to petioles
Sagittate lobes and spreading narrow bracts
Taraxacum huelphersianum
ST 5613 7448
VC34 Bristol
Roadside grassy verge
Broad stellate dumpy bracts and ‘Poirot moustache’ lobes. Erect plant
Taraxacum speciosiflorum
ST 6105 7523
VC34 Bristol
Tesco carpark
Not quite right for T hepaticum. Jagged occasional indents to broad terminal lobes first caught my eye. Bordered bracts
No pollen!!! There was quite a large group of plants here
Taraxacum lingulatum
ST 6125 7524
VC34 Bristol
Edge of Park – unmown
Pale green reflexed bracts, unblotched interlobes, purple tinted midribs and pale petioles
Taraxacum longisquameum
ST 6126 7524
VC34 Bristol
Edge of Park – unmown
Small mid/dark green decumbent plant
Taraxacum subexpallidum
ST 61264 75243
30/03/2024
VC34 Bristol
Edge of Park – unmown
Sub-divided end lobes and greenish unwinged petioles and sigmoid bracts
Taraxacum amplum
ST 61336 75211
30/03/2024
VC34 Bristol
Edge of Park – unmown
Distinctly winged petioles. Bordered reflexed bracts very distinctive
Taraxacum multicolorans
ST 5897 7663
VC34 Bristol
Roadside verge ‘nature reserve’
Dylan took me to see this splendid plant. A few others growing there.
1st April 2024 VC23 Bicester
Taraxacum huelphersianum
SP 6110 1796
VC23 Arncott
Edge of my driveway! and a VC23 tick for me
Been watching this for a while
4th April 2024 VC23 Bicester
Taraxacum exacutum
SP 5891 2089
VC23 Bicester - Graven Hill
Edge of pavement
Got excited about this being T mimulum but bracts broad stellate and end lobes more sagittate than diamond
7th April 2024 VC28 Norfolk
Taraxacum oxoniense
TF 8908 4489
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Edge of sandy track
I’d forgotten how big and striking these can get. This was typical of the plants in the dunes and probably the most frequent species
Taraxacum lacistophyllum
TF 8908 4492
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Edge of sandy track
Classic shaped leaf with long ligules and curled bracts.
Taraxacum fulviforme
TF 8908 4492
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Edge of sandy track
No Pollen. Spade shaped terminal (acute subdivision) lobes with 3-4 lobes. Bracts spreading with fine border.
Lateral lobes hooked back with acute tips – entire. Narrow green petiole unwinged (narrow parallel wing) some pink
Taraxacum lambinonii
TF 8904 4501
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
This was a common form on the dunes with a more neutral purple / pink petiole and reflexed lateral lobes. No pollen, obtuse tips to lateral lobes
Taraxacum inopinatum
TF 8910 4508
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
Nice to find this. About 5 plants in front of a rabbit burrow. No pollen
Taraxacum brachyglossum
TF 8910 4508
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
Next to the inopinatum several rosettes. Lovely to see these perfect plants with their purple arched /recurved bracts and delicate symmetrical dark green leaves. Normally stunted
Taraxacum fulvum
TF 89111 45125
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
No pollen. Several plants, bracts unbordered and erect / spreading. Stigmas very dark and brownish ligule stripes. Not typical
Taraxacum lambinonii
TF 8911 4512
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
Narrower patent lobes. No pollen
Taraxacum falcatum
TF 8911 4512
VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes
Sand dune grass
Lateral lobes very long and curled – narrow then thicken. Some double lobing. Petioles green, short unwinged. Some terminal lobes triangular
" 'British falcatum' Danish stuff has coloured petioles but it is v similar. Look in Sandmaskrosor" AJR pers com.
12th April 2014 VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Taraxacum subbracteatum
SP 5636 1747
VC23 Nr Wendlebury
Species rich ridge/furrow meadow
Lobe doubling and unbordered bracts
Taraxacum subundulatum
SP 5640 1765
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
A Mead species
Taraxacum oellgaardii
SP 5640 1765
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
A typical example
Taraxacum marklundii
SP 5640 1765
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
This is the ‘common’ unbordered Hamata in the meadow. Dull bluish green leaves with dentate distal edge
Taraxacum fulgidum
SP 564 176
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Typical ‘good’ plant – had to be photograped. Numerous in the meadow. I like the way it always has one bract that stays erect, bluish leaves and muscly lobes.
What I’m seeing is that the later leaves tend to develop more of a rounded end lobe and deeper purple petioles
Taraxacum bracteatum
SP 5643 1767
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Erect bracts and dark green leaves with broad triangular lateral lobes. I don’t think I’ve recorded bracteatum here
Taraxacum excellens
SP 5643 1767
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
End lobe is triangular
Taraxacum diastematicum
SP 5646 1766
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Long , pinkish and recurved bracts. Purple petioles with narrow green wing. Does have diamond shaped terminal lobes and some double lobing. Scape doesn’t seem to fit the leaves so a bigger plant out of the Meads.
Taraxacum anglicum
SP 5646 1766
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Apple shaped, glabrous edged, unbordered dark green bracts. Yellow stigmas with pollen
Taraxacum palustre
SP 5649 1766
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Note a more pink than red (anglicum) tone to the scape colour.
Taraxacum tamesense
SP 5652 1770
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
A well developed plant with blotched interlobes, Dark green leaves. Bracts (like fulgidum) always seem to keep a couple sub-erect
Taraxacum akteum
SP 5652 1770
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Had to be lurking somewhere.
Taraxacum valens
SP 5650 1765
VC23 Wendlebury Mead
Species rich water meadow
Dark broad bordered bracts on the bud, triangular end lobe and a tooth on the lower lateral lobes. Typical Mead species
Taraxacum ancistrolobum
SP 5603 1666
VC23 Nr Wendlebury
Grassy verge to track
14th April 2024 Norfolk
A day out with Russell Ness and Simon Pavlou (Pav)
Taraxacum acutifidum
TL 8806 8327
VC28 Thetford
Pavement edge
Has 4+/- lateral lobes. Triangular terminal lobe, leaves dark-green patent
Taraxacum exacutum
TL 8802 8326
VC28 Thetford
Pavement edge
Narrow wings on some petioles.
Taraxacum parnassicum
TL 9557 8068
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park. Sub-obtuse mid green. No pollen and short/mid-length ligules (hooded). Arcuate bracts with narrow border
Taraxacum ??
TL 9557 8068
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park
"Something Special" Bracts are erect on these plants and underside border to bracts broad. distinct and ligules long with very dark stripes. Scapes glabrous, pollen present
Taraxacum fulvum
TL 9557 8072
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park
No pollen
Taraxacum scanicum
TL 9558 8067
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park
Long lingulate end lobe (subdivided). Pollen present
Taraxacum polyodon
TL 9548 8071
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Under Pines next to car park
Tiny stunted plants seem to be numerous in these habitats
Taraxacum tortilobum
TL 9557 8068
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park
3 plants were found. Arachnoid-hairy plants with dark purple petioles and midribs. Very distinctive contorted leaf shape and twisted long teeth. The lateral lobes are very broad based and ligule stripes are brownish. Pollen present but sparse
Taraxacum fulvum
TL 9549 8066
VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area
Grass patch next to car park
No pollen. Same as plants on Holkham dunes
14th April 2024 Suffolk
Taraxacum scanicum
TL 8000 7051
VC26 Lackford Lakes
Edge of entrance road
Long subdivided lingulate end lobes. Bracts pale green, straight, erect/spreading, clear border and more linear edges
Taraxacum lambinonii
TL 8000 7051
VC26 Lackford Lakes
Edge of entrance road
Again! This plant lacked pollen and had erect ovate bracts.
Taraxacum glauciniforme
TL 7999 7057
VC26 Lackford Lakes
Edge of car park
No pollen, stigmas yellow, petioles purple with narrow wings.
Taraxacum rubicundum
TL 7883 7153
VC26 Ramparts Field
Short rabbit grazed heath
Scape is glabrous and ligules quite long. Bracts erect. Ligule stripes are brownish. Pollen is plentiful (we get that in the UK)
Taraxacum lacistophyllum
TL 7879 7151
VC26 Ramparts Field
Short rabbit grazed heath
Very elongated lobes similar to falcatum. On top of rabbit burrow so maybe enriched.
Taraxacum brachyglossum
TL 768 733
VC26 Icklingham
Short rabbit grazed heath
Broad short terminal lobes, falcate acute lateral lobes, mid / dark green leaves. Upper bract edges are distinctly fine bordered on this population. Pollen plentiful
19th April 2024 VC22 Frilford
Taraxacum brachyglossum
SU 4667 9967
VC22 Cothill
Sandy grass (nature reserve)
Pollen plentiful, stigmas discoloured
Ligule stripes purple/brown, tips and top edges smudged purple and pinched
Bracts pale green purple, broad arcuate lower, narrow arcuate recurved mid, unbordered.
Hairy scape
Mid/dark green flat leaf – prox. edge curled up with tooth
Acute tipped sagittate triangular lateral lobes
Taraxacum altissimum
SU 4681 9963
VC22 Cothill
Grassy path edge
Leaves mid-green.
Plant erect, inner leaves with long indented triangular terminal lobe
Long narrow winged petioles
Bracts do have a slightly darker edge to them
Taraxacum curtifrons
SU 4686 9951
VC22 Cothill
Grassy path edge
Taraxacum obtusifrons
SU 4680 9935
VC22 Cothill
Sandy grass (nature reserve)
Not very bright
Taraxacum quadrans
SU 4610 9978
VC22 Cothill
Edge of marsh area
With its regular lobes and matt blue green unblotched leaves. Bracts with +/- border
Taraxacum angustisquameum
SU 46073 99827
VC22 Cothill
Edge of marsh area
It’s a young plant - bracts are very pale greyish green and lateral lobes on older leaves are long and sagittate.
Maybe a young T acroglossum
Taraxacum falcatum
SU 4383 9793
VC22 Frilford
Edge of golf course
Determined from specimen at BSBI workshop – photos not great
Taraxacum dilatatum
SU 4375 9799
VC22 Frilford
Edge of golf course
Taraxacum fulvum
SU 43835 97951
VC22 Frilford
Edge of golf course
No pollen and regular triangular lateral lobes
4th May 2024 VC61 Spurn
Taraxacum pannulatum
TA 4167 1537
VC61 Kilnsea
Edge of car park – sandy grassland
Slightly hairy and some large end lobes also a large erect plant. Bracts are not long enough for procerisquameum
Taraxacum fulviforme
TA 4192 1499
VC61 Kilnsea
Sand dune grassland
Pollen absent
Taraxacum speciosiflorum
TA 4199 1484
VC61 Kilnsea