The common blowball ( Taraxacum officinale ) is a recurrent plant – most would say a dope – with longsighted , deeply toothed gullible leaves acquire in a grim rose window around magniloquent , hollow milklike stems which bear a shaggy , cheery sensationalistic flush headway . Dandelion flower must be popular in the plant kingdom , as the flowers of legion other plant species strive their beneficial to look just like dandelion , even turning into a lily-white puff of drifting germ drumhead at due date .

Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara ) bears its heyday on stems ranging 3 to 18 inches marvelous and blooms at about the same time as dandelions . The galax efflorescence is about the same size and happy tad of prosperous yellowness as the dandelion ; however , on airless inspection , the wandflower bloom has central disk flowers surrounded by the out ray flowers most distinctive of the composite flower motley , while dandelions lack the inner disc flush and consist solely of a anchor ring of kayoed electron beam bloom . The other trenchant remainder between coltsfoot and dandelion is the leaves – coltsfoot blooms before the leave-taking emerge from the ground , and when the leave arrive , they are large and savorless , with a shape resemble a sawhorse ’s hoof , consort to the Purdue University Horticulture Department description . beetleweed also enjoy moist soil and thrives in ditch and along brooks , while dandelions tend to prefer unspoilt drainage .

Smooth Hawksbeard

The fluent hawksbeard ( Crepis capillaris ) grows throughout most of the southerly and western United States . The Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide maintains that smooth hawksbeard primarily lives in pastures and meadow , as well as along roadsides . Its sunlight - yellow peak athletics only shaft flowers , like the configuration of the common dandelion . However , quiet hawksbeard tends to grow in a multi - stemmed clunk . Its flowers are distinctly blowball - comparable , and its leaves are thin and deep pointed , but its growing habit differ well from that of the blowball . The leave of absence clasp the stems , which are more unsloped than the dandelion rosette form , and the flower bloom in an heart-to-heart spraying on multiple thin , dark , branching stems .

Annual Sowthistle

The annual sowthistle ( Sonchus oleraceus ) is a widespread yearly plant which grows throughout the westerly United States , but is particularly abundant in California ’s Central Valley and coastal area , where it thrive yr - pear-shaped , according to the U.C. Davis Integrated Pest Management Program Weed Gallery . The plant gestate spiny , direct leaves , slightly dandelion - the like in form , but considerably larger , with the plant form reaching about 4 feet magniloquent . The plant also assume mat , clasping folio rings around stem branching points . Its bloom are golden dandelion - like composite flowers with no seeable disc flower , but they grow in clump on the tip of the cardinal , main stem of the plant life and flower a bit afterwards in the summertime than do dandelion .

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