Texas Dandelion, False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus)

Certainly not a plant you’d expect me to feature, but an important one none the less. The Texas Dandelions are one of the very first flowering plants that return after the winter months and provide food for emerging bees and butterflies. Know as a “false dandelion” because it’s actually a member of the aster family, it is like its namesake in its edible properties. From flowers to roots it can be consumed. Its flowers opens in the early morning and close in the heat of the day and remain beautiful until well into the heat of summer.

[@jessicafromtexas2868]

I found some by a ditch and dug up the plant and brought it home and put it in my yard. so hopefully the seeds will spread in my yard. I think they are beautiful. And there were many many plants still out in the open lot.

[@LisaLaPaso]

Good luck!

[@jessicawywias6142]

Do you know if these are edible for reptiles? I have a Uromastyx and she can eat the regular dandelions

[@LisaLaPaso]

I’m sorry, but I do not know if they’re edible for reptiles.

[@jomarielopez2229]

You are the one that taught me about having a garden without "spikey" plants and still have flowers that can stand the warm weather from Texas!

[@LisaLaPaso]

I love it! That’s because life is spikey enough, lol.