Long haul flight: micro CT image of a dandelion seed with yellow false colour. (Courtesy: Madeleine Seale and Alice Macente) A brush-shaped structure called a pappus creates vortex rings that help ...

It's a summer staple: fluffy clouds of dandelion seeds wafting through the summer air. You'll be seeing a lot of them in the weeks to come. As dandelion season reaches its peak, mature plants will ...

Since we don’t use poisons on our lawns, we can try to mow the lawn short and get at dandelion flowers or let the lawn grow longer and try and smother them out. Of course, the dandelion is a very wily ...

A dandelion flower that’s already gone to seed is seen Thursday Purchase this image Dandelions are popping up on lawns, ...

If the dandelion didn’t crop up in our lawns, we would call it a wildflower. If it did better in our vegetable gardens, we’d call it a salad leaf. If more people used it for folk cures, we’d call it a ...

Those round, short, golden yellow flowers that emerge in spring are often scorned, especially when they cover lawns. Dandelions are everywhere, people complain. One man sprays herbicides on every one ...