Fellow iNatters, I regret to inform you that not so long ago, despite our best efforts, we had collectively failed in our noble task to bring the full glory of identification to the world of dandelions. Just days ago, within the realm of the so-called United States, over 80,000 purported dandelion …

[image] Italopithecus: A case that supports the necessity of always taking what is written in Wikipedia with a pinch of salt. The taxonomic position of T. officinale is clear. It is a name that should not be used as its type in ambiguous. haha…I’m taking the side of the lumpers. From the comm…

In many dandelion taxa, seed set is apomictic – without sex. It’s not selfing, it’s cloning. One dandelion breeding system variant that I find interesting: Some dandelions that set seed without sex still produce pollen. That pollen can fertilize the ovules of other species that are outcrossing. …

@jasonhernandez74 - No need to opt-out of community taxon! In fact, I’d say dandelions already ID’d to section are (big-picture) where we need the least ID work, and where we should be most cautious. Basically for the reason you mention - that’s where we’re most likely to run into credibly considere…

Yeah it is complicated and interesting behavior that it would be interesting to see more studies about. It’s been a while since I looked at the literature, but I think maybe the ones that don’t produce pollen probably aren’t old at all, like less than a few hundred years. One would expect the purely …

Reminds me of a common fern, Bird nest fern. I have always known it as Asplenium nidus. Now some in iNat decided to put a sophisticated name to it, Section Thamnopteris. I’m just amused, not irritated. I will rely on iNat’s 2/3 majority voting rule to decide the outcome.

@upupa-epops - Hahaha. Hey - I asked for their mercy!

Here’s a four-year-old observation from Indiana I just came across that I’m going to confidently confirm at genus-level and mark “as good as it gets” - thought it might elicit a smile :-) [image] If this forum were an appropriate place to ask for an ID, hopefully you'd all be happy to confirm thi…

[image] comradejon: Taraxacum sec. Taraxacum, sp. taraxacum, var. taraxacum, f. taraxacum - or something similar, Just devise a catch-all name such as Taraxacum officially :wink: .

I’m just angling for one of the new micro-species to be named Taraxacum comradejonii - it’s going to be like how we can all have a star named after us :-)

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upupa-epops April 1, 2024, 3:58am 61

I’m just thinking about the staff coming back from their Easter weekend haha, “oh no, not dandelions again…”

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