A Eurasian plant of the daisy family which resembles a dandelion, with a rosette of leaves and yellow flowers.
Genus Leontodon, family Compositae
Example sentencesExamples
- White Campion likes warm, sunny field margins and roadsides where it grows with moon daisies and hawkbits.
- Other members of the hawkweed group include Common Cat's ear; there are also many hawkbits and hawksbeards, all of which have dandelion-like flowers.
- Lesser hawkbit especially stand out in late summer and fall, long after the April blooming of the original dandelion.
- But dandelions have unbranched scapes, whereas autumnal hawkbit has usually branched scapes and two or more flower-heads.
- When comparing the relative length and width of hawkbit and catsear leaves, catsear leaves tends to be wider than hawkbit leaves.