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LIFE CYCLE:  Perennial; reproduces by seeds and new shoots from taproot (A); flowers mainly during spring.

MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS*: Stems contain milky juice; leaves usually oblong and more or less tapering in outline; arranged in basal rosette at soil surface; leaves lobed or serrated (coarse-toothed) (B); yellow flowers arranged in single head on long hollow stalk (C).