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  • Susan gets amazing produce at her farmers market in San Diego, and her entry this week uses dandelion greens, combined very interestingly in Dandelion, Persimmon, and Medjool Date Salad.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Kalyn Denny 2008

  • Susan gets amazing produce at her farmers market in San Diego, and her entry this week uses dandelion greens, combined very interestingly in Dandelion, Persimmon, and Medjool Date Salad.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #156 Recap and Three Years of Blogging About Herbs! Kalyn Denny 2008

  • The word Dandelion comes from the French name for the plant, "dents de lion", or teeth of the lion, referring to the jagged edges of the leaf of the plant.

    Blogtimore, Hon 2009

  • Dandelion is definitely the closest thing you'll get to having a cup of coffee.

    Making cake, and eating it, too 2005

  • The Dandelion, which is a wild sort of Succory, was known to Arabian physicians, since Avicenna of the eleventh century mentions it as _taraxacon_.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • You call the Dandelion and the Groundsel weeds, but they have flowers all the same; the Dandelion is perhaps one of the most lovely yellow flowers that we have.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

  • But I have seen it out in November; that is, the Dandelion blooms for fully nine months.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Adirondacks, a group of girl scouts known as the Dandelion Troop saved many lives and did heroic work in saving property.

    Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • Still it has been calculated that a Peony flower produces between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pollen grains; in the Dandelion, which is more specialised, the number is reduced to about 250,000; while in such a flower as the Dead-nettle it is still smaller.

    The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

  • Down by the sea lived Ben the fisherman, with his wife, and little son, who was called Dandelion, because he wore yellow pinafores, and had curly, yellow hair, that covered his head with a golden fuzz.

    Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860

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