Since dandelions really aroused your curiosity today in class, I decided to add a couple of resources to help us get a better picture of these wild plants and learn about some of their interesting secrets.Spanish: diente de león(Taraxacum officinale)
- Dandelion with seeds - - - Dandelion seeds being blown -
More information
Definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion
Dandelion Uses and Health Benefits
Bonus track: A poem about dandelions!!
The First Dandelion
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Source: "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman
