Dandelion

Plant native to Earth - Carried via Seeds to many planets

Taraxacum ( pron.: /təˈræksəkʉm/ ) is a large genus of  flowering plants in the family  Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North America, and two species,  T. officinale and  T. erythrospermum, are found as  weeds worldwide. [1]  Both species are edible in their entirety. [2] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> The common name  dandelion<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> ( <span class="nowrap" style="white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">/<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈd<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/æ/ short 'a' in 'bad'">ænd<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ɨ/ 'e' in 'roses'">ɨl<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/aɪ/ long 'i' in 'bide'">aɪ[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key <span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/./ syllable break">. ]<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ən/ 'on' in 'button'">ən/ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  <span class="Unicode" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;" title="English pronunciation respelling"> dan  -di-ly-ən <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, from  French<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  dent-de-lion<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, meaning "lion's tooth") is given to members of the  genus<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite  flower head<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many  Taraxacum<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> species produce seeds  asexually<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> by apomixis<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, where the seeds are produced without  pollination<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant