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This is one of the common weeds of grasslands, lawns, flowerbeds. It'll grow in good soil, bad soil, acid soil, neutral soil, basic soil - it really doesn't care. It starts flowering in June after the main crop of dandelions has finished and non botanical persons too often refer to it as a "Dandelion".
The differences between it and the rare H. maculata aren't as pronounced as some flora would have you believe. On most of the specimens I have seen, the leaf shape is large and oval in H. maculata but is sinuately lobed in at least some of the basal rosette in H. radicata The flower head tends to be smaller in H. radicata but the big difference is the blotches. Purple blotches on both leaves and stem are usually found in H. maculata but you do get a few blotches on H. radicata leaves too (as in this photo).
Great Orme, 10th June 2004
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