Japanese name: コウリンタンポポ（紅輪蒲公英） Scientific name:Pilosella aurantiaca
[Overview]
A perennial 10–50 cm tall, found in grassland.
It often sends out stolons and grows in colonies.
Black stiff bristles grow all over the plant.
There are basal leaves and leaves clustered near the base of the stem; both are elliptic-spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–20 cm long and 1.2–3.5 cm wide, with long stiff bristles densely growing on both surfaces.
The flower heads are reddish orange and borne in large numbers in compound corymbs.
The involucre has long stiff bristles, short glandular hairs and stellate hairs.
The fruit is an achene.
[History]
It was introduced as an ornamental in the mid-Meiji era and has become naturalized since the war, mainly in Hokkaido.
