A weed or an edible plant? Both the Dandelion Taraxacum officinale and the Catsear Hypochaeris radicata, very similar but unrelated plants. The genus is taxonomically complex, with some botanists dividing the group into about 34 macrospecies, and about 2000 microspecies; approximately 235 apomictic and polyploid microspecies have been recorded in Great Britain and Ireland. Some botanists take a much narrower view and only accept a total of about 60 species. Wikipedia. Both the Dandelion and the Catsear are completely edible. I used to eat them regularly in salads in South America. The English name dandelion is a corruption of the French dent de lion meaning "lion's tooth", referring to the coarsely toothed leaves.
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