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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Asteraceae
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.
Virginia dwarf-dandelion
Krigia: for David Krieg, German physician, who first collected this plant in Maryland
virginica: of Virginia
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 2"-16" tall forb with milky juice |
| Flower: | head 3/8" wide with only yellow ray flowers; inflorescence with the head at the end of a long stalk from the base of the plant; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | linear, mostly basal |
| Habitat: | dry; prairies; in sandy soil |
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