Yellow dandelion-type flowers can be difficult to tell apart. Except for some very rare species hawkbits, dandelions and catsears can be distinguished from the rest by the absents of leaves along the flowering stem. Dandelions contain a milky juice, catsears have chaffy scales among their florets and hawkbits have neither.
Catsear is most like autumn hawkbit in that both have flower stems that swell towards their tops and both have short scale like bracts along these stems. Catsear is generally taller with a larger flower; the stem is less swollen at the top and the ends of the leaves are rounded not pointed.
We sell Catsear (Hypochaeris radicata) seeds per gram; customers should be aware that when ordering more than one gram of Catsear seeds, the entire amount will be bagged together to reduce unnecessary packaging.
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