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Red-seeded Dandelion

Taraxacum laevigatum

In the Carolinas and Georgia, found in roadsides, lawns, pastures, other disturbed sites. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Arkansas. How scores work Is it native here?

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Height
2–12 inches
Light
Full sun
Soil moisture
Dry to moist

At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Bloom
January to December

Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves

Recorded in 6 Arkansas counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

65CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AR

Genus host records with ranges including AR · Taraxacum

  • Abagrotis magnicupidaOne-Dotted Dart
  • Agnorisma badinodisPale-Banded Dart
  • Agrotis vetustaOld Man Dart
  • Anagrapha falciferaCelery Looper Moth
  • Anicla illapsaSnowy Dart
  • Apamea sordensBordered Apamea, Rustic Shoulder-Knot
  • Apantesis annaAnna Tiger Moth
  • Apantesis argeArge Tiger Moth
  • Apantesis naisNais Tiger Moth
  • Apantesis partheniceParthenice Tiger Moth
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  • Apantesis phalerataHarnessed Moth
  • Apantesis vittataBanded Tiger Moth
  • Cerastis tenebriferaReddish Speckled Dart
  • Choephora fungorumBent-Line Dart
  • Chytolita morbidalisMorbid Owlet
  • Elaphria chalcedoniaChalcedony Midget
  • Elaphria grataGrateful Midget
  • Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
  • Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
  • Eusarca confusariaConfused Eusarca
  • Feltia jaculiferaDingy Cutworm
  • Feltia subterraneaSubterranean Dart, Granulate Cutworm
  • Homorthodes furfurataNorthern Scurfy Quaker
  • Hyalophora cecropiaCecropia Silkmoth, Cecropia Moth
  • Hypercompe scriboniaGiant Leopard Moth, Great Leopard Moth
  • Idaea furciferataNotch-Winged Wave
  • Idaea obfusariaRippled Wave
  • Lacinipolia explicataExplicit Groundcat, Explicit Arches
  • Lacinipolia implicataImplicit Arches
  • Lacinipolia laudabilisLaudable Arches, Laudable Mamestra
  • Lacinipolia loreaBridled Arches, Bridle Groundcat
  • Lacinipolia lustralisLustral "Mamestra"
  • Lacinipolia meditataThe Thinker
  • Lacinipolia renigeraBristly Ground Cat, Bristly Cutworm Moth, Kidney Spotted "Mamestra"
  • Leuconycta lepidulaMarble-Green Jaspidia, Marble-Green Leuconycta
  • Manduca quinquemaculatusFive-Spotted Hawkmoth, Tomato Hornworm
  • Megalographa bilobaBilobed Looper Moth
  • Melanchra pictaPainted Arches, Zebra Caterpillar Moth
  • Nephelodes miniansBronzed Cutworm
  • Orgyia leucostigmaWhite-Marked Tussock Moth
  • Orthodes cynicaCynical Quaker, Cynical Groundcat
  • Orthodes detractaDisparaged Arches, Disparaged Groundcat
  • Orthodes majusculaRustic Quaker, Rustic Groundcat
  • Pagara simplexMouse-Colored Lichen Moth
  • Palthis angulalisDark-Spotted Palthis
  • Phalaenostola metonalisPale Epidelta, Pale Phalaenostola
  • Protolampra brunneicollisBrown-Collared Dart
  • Proxenus mirandaMiranda Moth, Glistening Rustic
  • Pseudorthodes vecorsSmall Brown Quaker, Small Brown Groundcat
  • Pyrrharctia isabellaIsabella Tiger Moth, Banded Woolybear
  • Scopula limboundataLarge Lace-Border
  • Spilosoma congruaAgreeable Tiger Moth
  • Spilosoma latipennisPink-Legged Tiger Moth
  • Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
  • Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
  • Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
  • Tricholita signataSignate Quaker, Signate Groundcat
  • Trichoplusia niNi Moth, Cabbage Looper Moth
  • Virbia aurantiacaOrange Virbia, Orange Holomelina
  • Virbia ferruginosaRusty Holomelina, Rusty Virbia
  • Virbia laetaJoyful Virbia, Joyful Holomelina
  • Virbia opellaTawny Virbia, Tawny Holomelina
  • Virbia rubicundariaRuddy Virbia, Ruddy Holomelina
  • Xestia c-nigrumSpotted Cut-Worm, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Lesser Black-letter Dart
  • Xestia dolosaGreater Black-Letter Dart, Greater Spotted Cutworm
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
5Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Taraxacum

  • Andrena chromotricha
  • Andrena krigiana
  • Colletes rufocinctus
  • Protandrena aestivalis
  • Protandrena piercei
Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
5BirdsRecorded eating Taraxacum in Arkansas

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Birds whose range includes Arkansas, most records first.

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab)

Direct food only. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

Birds that eat Taraxacum 5

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Asteraceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Red Seed Dandelion; Red seeded Dandelion; Taraxacum laevigatum

Conservation status

Arkansas rankSNA
Global rankGNR
AR statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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