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- Acacia 046.036
- Acanthaceae - Bear's-breech 125
- Acanthus 125.001
- Acaena 048.034
- Adiantum 012.003
- Aeonium 043.005
- Agapanthus 167.003
- Agave 168.014
- Aichryson 043.011
- Aira 177.049
- Aizoaceae - Dewplant 096
- Allium 167.001
- Amaryllidaceae - Daffodil 167
- Amaryllis 167.006
- Anthoxanthum 177.040
- Aphanes 048.036
- Aptenia 096.001
- Arctosis 135.036
- Aristea 165.001
- Armeria 091.002
- Asperagaceae - Asparagus 168
- Aspleniaceae - Spleenwort 014
- Asplenium 014.001
- Asteraceae - Daisy 135
- Crassulaceae - Stonecrop 043
- Crepis 135.032
- Fabaceae - Pea 046
- Leucojum 167.009
- Lythrum 072.001
- Plumbaginaceae - Thrift 091
- Poaceae - Grass 177
- Pteridaceae - Ribbon fern 012
- Rosaceae - Roses 048
- Taraxacum 135.031
- Sorbus 048.014
- Symphyotrichum 135.058
- (A)(B) Few to numerous simple
- (A)B (Few) numerous simple
- (A)C Few / no simple hairs
- (D)(E) Few / some stellate
- (F)(G) Few / some glandular
- A Few simple hairs
- A(B) Few to many simple hairs
- A(occ) Occasional simple hairs
- B Numerous simple
- B(A) Numerous (few) simple hairs
- C No simple
- C(A) No (occasional) simple hairs
- D Numerous/dense stellate
- D(E) Dense (few) stellate
- D(E) Numerous (few) stellate
- D(out) dense stellate on outer only
- E Few/No stellate
- E(D) No / few (some) stellate
- E(none) No stellate
- F Numerous glandular
- F(G) Numerous (few) glandular
- F(mic) Numerous micro glandular
- G No / few glandular
- G(min) Few minute glandular
- G(none) No glandular
- (H)(I) Obtuse / Acute apex
- (J)(K) +/- 11mm
- (J)K (<)>11mm
- <11mm
- >11mm
- H Obtuse apex
- H(I) Obtuse (some acute) apex
- H(outer) Obtuse apex outer bracts
- I Acute apex
- I(fil) Acute filamentous
- I(H) Acute (obtuse) tips
- J(K) <11mm(>11mm)
- Reflexed tips
- (S)T Bracts erect sub-erect spreading
- Appressed
- Arcuate
- bl6-7
- bl7
- bl7-8
- Border wide pale
- Bordered
- Bordered clear white
- Bordered distinctly
- Bordered slightly
- bw2
- bw2-3
- Ciliate
- Claw shaped
- Erect
- Erect on bud
- inrolled
- Length<12
- Length>18
- Messy
- Narrow white border
- Neat ruff
- Oblong
- Ovate
- P < 10mm length
- Pale green above
- Pink tipped
- Purple suffused above
- R(rec) Arcuate recurved tip
- radiate wheel spokes
- Recurved
- Reflexed
- S(pat) Spreading (patent)
- Sigmoid
- Spreading
- Spreading arcuate
- Spreading erect
- Spreading suberect
- Twisted
- U Unbordered
- Unbordered
- Upturned tips
- V Bordered
- Width <6
- Width<1.5
- Width<2
- Width<2.5
- Width<3
- Width<3.5
- Width<4
- Width<4.5
- Width<5
- Width<5.5
- X < 3.5mm wide
- (V)(W) Small medium head
- (W) small/med head
- (W)(X) Medium to large capitula
- (W)X Large (medium) capitula
- Black bud apex
- cap Few
- cap1-10+
- cap1-20
- cap1-4
- cap1-4(14)
- cap1-5+
- cap1-6
- cap1-8
- cap10-20+
- cap2-10
- cap2-12
- cap2-15
- cap2-20
- cap2-4
- cap2-5
- cap2-50
- cap2-6
- cap2-8
- cap3-10
- cap3-12
- cap3-15
- cap3-20
- cap4-20
- cap5-16
- Glabrous scape
- Hairy scape
- Ligules brown-purple
- Ligules dark purple
- Ligules grey-purple
- Ligules greyish-brown
- Ligules red-purple
- Ligules short
- Ligules striped pink
- Ligules tipped blackish
- Ligules tipped purple
- Ligules tipped reddish
- Long achene cone
- Pollen absent
- Pollen plentiful
- Pollen present
- Pollen sometimes
- Stigmas dark yellow
- Striped dark brown
- Striped grey-purple
- Striped grey-violet
- Striped purple
- Teeth yellow
- V small capitula head
- V(W) Small (medium) head
- W Medium
- W(X) Medium / large
- X Large capitula
- (w)x Sometimes teeth on lower / proximal edge
- Blotched
- Blotched edge interlobes
- Blotched interlobes
- Blotched slightly
- Blotched sometimes
- Convex proximal margins
- Crowded overlapping
- Cucullate lobes
- Entire
- Entire distal/upper edge entire
- Forward pointing
- Heterophyllous
- Interlobes toothed
- Interlobes unblotched mainly lacking blackish / cu
- Lateral 1-4
- Lateral 2-4
- Lateral 2-5
- Lateral 3-4
- Lateral 3-5
- Lateral 3-6
- Lateral 4-5
- Lateral 4-6
- Lateral 4-7
- Lateral 4-8
- Lateral 5-6
- Lateral 5-7
- Lateral 5-8
- Lateral 6-10
- Lateral 6-12
- Lateral 6-7
- Lateral forward pointing
- Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge curved back
- Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge hooked curved ba
- ll4-5
- ll4-6
- Lobes alternate
- Lobes dentate
- Lobes often double
- Lobes spaced
- Patent
- Proximal margin teeth
- Proximal/lower edge entire lacking teeth
- q(r) Entire (dentate) distal upper edge
- r Toothed distal / upper edge
- Recurved
- Scarcely blotched
- Scythe-like
- Short
- Smudged interlobes
- Spathulate
- Spatulate
- t Interlobes toothed
- t(dist) Interlobes toothed (distant lobes)
- Terminal acuminate-extenuate
- Terminal broad trilobate
- Terminal hamate
- Terminal helmet
- Terminal large
- Terminal long-sagittate
- Terminal mucronate
- Terminal narrow elongated
- Terminal obtuse-rounded
- Terminal onion spire
- u Unblotched interlobes
- Unblotched
- v(mid) Interlobes blackish / dark (cut to midrib)
- Variously directed
- w Proximal lower edge entire
- x Teeth on proximal / lower edge
- z Proximal lower edge hooked curved back
- z(rec) Proximal edge recurved
- b Curled crisped plicate
- b(int) Interlobes curled crisped
- c Mid green
- d Dark green
- f Leaves narrow elliptical
- g Upper surface glabrous / scarce hairs
- h Hairy
- Small
- Spotted
- Unspotted
- Z Homophyllous no marked leaf difference
- (P)(Q) Sometimes with spots
- (T)(U) Entire / toothed
- (Y) slightly hairy upper
- (Y)(Z) sometimes hairy
- (Y)Z Glabrous sometimes hairs
- (Z) slightly glabrous upper
- Acute apex
- Ascending
- Black-edged midrib
- cl 0-1
- cl 0-1(3)
- cl 2-3
- cl 2-4
- cl 6-14
- cl 8-20
- cl few
- Contorted
- Creased most of length
- Crisped
- Crisped slightly
- Dark bluish-green
- Dark dirty green
- Dark green
- Dark grey-green
- Decumbent
- Deeply dissected
- Erect
- Flat
- Glabrescent
- Glaucous
- Hairy
- Heterophyllous
- Homophyllous
- Lanceolate
- Lanceolate-spathulate
- Leaves Spotted
- Linear
- Mid-green
- Midrib bright purple
- Midrib dull purple
- Midrib white-green
- Narrow laceolate
- Narrow oblong
- Oblanceolate
- Oblong
- Oblong-spatulate
- Obovate
- P Spotted
- P(Q) Sometimes not spotted
- Pale green
- Prostrate
- Punctate black spots
- Q not spotted
- Q(P) Occasional spotting
- Shortly hairy
- Skeletal
- Slightly crisped
- Small spots sometimes
- Spathulate
- Suberect
- T no large teeth
- T(ent) Entire edges
- T(U) Entire/Serrate/Toothed
- Terminal rounded lobules
- U large teeth
- Unblotched
- Upper surface glaucous
- Width<1.5cm
- Y hairy upper surface
- Y(bulb) Hairy upper surface bulbous base
- Y(Z) Hairy (glabrous) upper surface
- Y*(both) Hairy stellate both sides
- Y*(caul) Hairy with cauline stellate
- Z Glabrous upper
- Z(Y) Glabrous (sometimes hairs)
- Z(Y)* Stellate (simple) hairs on upper surface
- Z* Stellate only (rough)
- (a)(b) Few to many simple hairs
- (c)(a) No / occasional simple hairs
- (d)(e) Some stellate
- (f)(g) Few / occasional glandular
- a Few simple hairs
- a(b) Few (numerous) simple
- a(occ) Occasional simple hairs
- b numerous simple
- c No simple
- c(a) No (occasional) simple hairs
- d Numerous stellate
- e Few stellate
- e(d) Few (numerous) stellate
- f Numerous glandular
- f(few) Few glandular
- f(min) Minute glandular
- g no/few glandular
- g(f) No / few (some) glandular
- g(min) Few minute glandular
- g(none) No glandular
- g(occ) Occasional glandular
- Broad expanded wings
- Broadly winged
- Green
- Greenish-pink
- Inner faint pink / green
- Inner pink Outer pallid
- Long and narrow
- Midrib green-pinkish
- Midrib greenish
- Narrow unwinged
- Narrow winged base
- Obsolete
- Outside whitish
- Parallel winged
- Petioles broad
- Pink
- Purple
- Reddish
- Sheathing
- Short
- Unwinged
- White
- White outer
- White-green
- Winged +/-
- Winged base
- Wings lobate
- Wings long parallel
- (A)(B) Petioles green or purplish
- B Petioles all pink / purple
- D Petiole unwinged (very slight)
- F Midrib coloured / pinkish
- F(G) Midrib coloured (green)
- F(thr) Midrib pinkish threaded
- G Lower midrib green / concolorous
- H Scape hairy below capitula
- Achene orange-brown red
- Achene red
- J(red) Reddish ligule teeth
- K Ligule teeth yellow
- L Stigma styles discoloured
- M Stigma styles yellow
- N Ligule stripe grey to violet
- O(purp) Ligule stripe purple
- O(red) Red ligule stripes
- Pollen Absent
- Pollen Present
- (N)(O) Yellow / discoloured styles
- (O) styles slightly discoloured
- (R)(S) Occasional hairy ligule tips
- N styles yellow
- N(O) Styles yellow slight discoloured
- N(orange) Orange styles
- O styles discoloured
- O(N) Discoloured (sometimes yellow) styles
- Pollen Absent
- R Ligules hairy at tip
- R(S) Hairy (glabrous) ligule tips
- S ligules glabrous
- S(R) glabrous occasional hair
- Stylose heads
- i Entire / toothed edge
- i(tri) Not subdivided trilobate
- l Sigmoid / concave edge
- m Helmet shaped / cucullate / convex
- n acute / mucronate / sharp apex
- n(ling) Acute acuminate lingulate sharp apex
- VC01 IOS and W.Cornwall
- VC11 S.Hampshire
- VC22 Berkshire
- VC23 Oxfordshire
- VC24 Buckinghamshire
- VC32 Northants
- VC34 W.Gloucestershire
- VC42 Breconshire
- VC49 Caernarvonshire
- VC62 NE.Yorkshire
- VC65 NW.Yorkshire
- VC69 Westmorland

135.025.172 Taraxacum severum
135.025.222 Taraxacum obliquilobum
135.025.206 Taraxacum interveniens
135.025.198 Taraxacum trilobatum
135.025.174 Taraxacum laciniosifrons
135.025.111 Taraxacum pseudohamatum
167.010.002 Galanthus plicatus - pleated snowdrop
167.010.001 Galanthus nivalis - snowdrop
135.025.067 Taraxacum oellgaardii
135.025.077 Taraxacum tamesense
135.025.080 Taraxacum haematicum
135.025.025 Taraxacum wallonicum
135.025.024 Taraxacum glauciniforme
135.025.022 Taraxacum falcatum
135.025.013 Taraxacum proximum
135.025.008 Taraxacum rubicundum
135.025.001 Taraxacum lacistophyllum
135.025.037 Taraxacum faeroense
135.025.050 Taraxacum euryphyllum
135.025.083 Taraxacum nordstedtii
135.025.100 Taraxacum unguilobum
135.025.036 Taraxacum anglicum
135.025.034 Taraxacum ciliare
135.025.104 Taraxacum hamatum
135.025.105 Taraxacum hamatulum
135.025.106 Taraxacum subhamatum
135.025.107 Taraxacum marklundii
135.025.110 Taraxacum quadrans
135.025.114 Taraxacum boekmanii
135.025.115 Taraxacum atactum
135.025.117 Taraxacum pruinatum
135.025.119 Taraxacum spiculatum
135.025.122 Taraxacum lamprophyllum
135.025.121 Taraxacum kernianum
135.025.123 Taraxacum alatum
135.025.125 Taraxacum densilobum
135.025.126 Taraxacum dilaceratum
135.025.127 Taraxacum pallescens
135.025.128 Taraxacum pannucium
135.025.129 Taraxacum subexpallidum
135.025.132 Taraxacum leucopodum
135.025.133 Taraxacum macrolobum
135.025.134 Taraxacum undulatum
135.025.135 Taraxacum corynodes
135.025.136 Taraxacum tenebricans
135.025.139 Taraxacum pannulatiforme
135.025.145 Taraxacum pallidipes
135.025.142 Taraxacum necessarium
135.025.143 Taraxacum lepidum
135.025.138 Taraxacum insigne
135.025.146 Taraxacum croceiflorum
135.025.140 Taraxacum laticordatum
135.025.148 Taraxacum lunare
135.025.152 Taraxacum undulatiflorum
135.025.153 Taraxacum chloroticum
135.025.157 Taraxacum acutifrons
135.025.158 Taraxacum sublongisquameum
135.025.159 Taraxacum chrysophaenum
135.025.160 Taraxacum tumentilobum
135.025.161 Taraxacum intumescens
135.025.162 Taraxacum ancistrolobum
135.025.163 Taraxacum sellandii
135.025.166 Taraxacum longisquameum
135.025.167 Taraxacum scotiniforme
135.025.168 Taraxacum maculatum
135.025.170 Taraxacum subxanthostigma
135.025.171 Taraxacum melanthoides
135.025.173 Taraxacum aequisectum
135.025.175 Taraxacum pachylobum
135.025.176 Taraxacum edmondsonianum
135.025.179 Taraxacum lucidum
135.025.180 Taraxacum vastisectum

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