The familiar yellow dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) growing on your lawn is a native of Europe and Asia, however, is located globally. It develops as a perennial in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9. It’s a dicot, one of the 2 forms of angiosperms, or flowering plants. The sort of flowering plant is a monocot.
Dicots vs. Monocots
There are five ways to distinguish a dicot and also a monocot, together with three. Starting with all the seeds, a dicot seed consists of two halves, or cotyledons, even though a monocot seed is one unit. Seeds with 2 cotyledons unfurl two leaves once they sprout, while monocot seeds create one leaf. Monocot leaves are slim and long, with the veins growing parallel to the centre vein, whereas the veins in the leaves of a dicot are dispersed throughout the leaf. The method requires looking closely at the flower construction. Monocot flower petals develop in threes, or multiples of 3, therefore a monocot flower might have six or two petals. The flower petals of A dicot have been in groups of four or five, or even multiples of five.