This smallish dandelion had some rather purplish bits on the leaves and stem but none of our WFS party would have dared try an identification of this very difficult group even though this one did look a bit different from the norm. Our skilled leader Vincent Jones knew his dandelions as well as his hawkweeds and he identified it for us. It is a well known (to Dandelion tamers) member of the Taraxacum erythrosperma section Taraxacum lacistophyllum about which there are a few lines in Stace.
Near the top of Cronkley fell 22nd June 2005
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