Dandelion Dreams
by Peggy Franz
Title
Dandelion Dreams
Artist
Peggy Franz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
COMMON DANDELION (Taraxacum Officinale)The dandelion is a perennial, herbaceous plant with long, lance-shaped leaves. They're so deeply toothed, they gave the plant its name in Old French: Dent-de-lion means lion's tooth in Old French.
The leaves are 3 to 12" long, and 1/2 to 2-1/2" wide, always growing in a basal rosette.
Parachute and SeedThe rosettes immature, tightly wrapped leaf bases just above the top of the root form a tight "crown."Seed HeadDandelion leaves are at their best when they've just emerged.
The dandelions well-known yellow, composite flowers are 1 to 2" wide.
Basal RosetteThey grow individually on hollow flower stalks 2 to 18" tall. Each flower head consists of hundreds of tiny ray flowers. Unlike other composites, there are no disk flowers.
Reflexed bracts grow under each flower.Yellow Composite FlowerThe flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind.The thick, brittle, beige, branching taproot grows up to 10" long. All parts of this plant exude a white milky sap when broken.
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May 5th, 2013
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Comments (48)
Conor Murphy
Hi Peggy, I would love this in my Group , Nuts, Seeds and Berries.
Peggy Franz replied:
That was very nice of you :) Someone who appreciates my work .. Thank you again
Bob and Nancy Kendrick
Peggy, Congratulations on your 1st place win in the Show Off Your Best Work-Photographs contest! Outstanding image! v/f/tw
Peggy Franz
THANK YOU TO ALL!! THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME :) I am working rally hard to improve!! So you all have made me feel good!!
Annie Zeno
Congratulations for being featured in Visual Voice----as like the dandelion seed our dreams can spread far and wide in the wind. We were born to spread our dreams to help others spread theirs.