Taraxacum bracteatum Dahlst.

Leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 10–25 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, dark green, glabrescent; lateral lobes in 3–5 pairs, broadly deltoid to hooked; distal margins of upper 2 or 3 lobes entire, proximal margins entire, usually convex; terminal lobe broadly helmet-shaped in outline to triangular; petiole brown-purple, very narrowly winged at base, with wings broader distally; midrib brown-purple throughout, sparsely hairy. Scapes 5–20 cm long at anthesis, 15–35 cm long in fruit, usually with foliose bracts, glabrous at flowering except below capitulum, usually rose-purple throughout. Capitula c. 4.5 cm diam.; outermost bracts narrowly lanceolate, 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, usually laciniate; next series lanceolate and entire, c. 10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, erecto-patent, narrowly white-bordered, not callus-tipped; innermost bracts linear c. 15 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, not callus-tipped. Outer florets with ligule flat, exceeding involucre by 8 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas dull green. Achenes broadly fusiform, 3.5–4.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, shortly spinulose at apex, with lower part verruculose to smooth, olive-brown to straw-coloured; cone conical to ± cylindrical, c. 0.8–1 mm long; beak 6–9 mm long. Pappus 5–6 mm long.

Grows in damp places in gardens, camping grounds and on roadsides. It is also abundant in disturbed alpine grassland; often in heavy basaltic or alluvial soil.