Flowering plant. They look strange, these dandelions. They don't have the downturned small leaves underneath the flowerhead. Kyoto bot.g, Japan. Wild. 2001-05-10.
Taraxacum japonicum Koidz.
Engl.: Japanese dandelion.
Jap.: kansai tanpopo
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