Taraxacum formosanumKitam.

WFO wfo-0000116405 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Taraxacum formosanum, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-31 / obs. 196993297

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Flowering 74 in flower of 85 examined

Proportion of examined Taraxacum formosanum in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Feb 6 6 100% 61% to 100%
Mar 24 26 92% 76% to 98%
Apr 27 30 90% 74% to 97%
May 5 7 71% 36% to 92%
Jun 2 2 too few examined
Jul 0 0 too few examined
Aug 0 0 too few examined
Sep 0 0 too few examined
Oct 1 2 too few examined
Nov 0 0 too few examined
Dec 4 7 57% 25% to 84%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Taraxacum formosanum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 74 of 85 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.