Josh Clark

But you need only look at the history of the dandelion, the fact that it was brought to North America by colonists.

to kind of underscore the fact that we wanted the dandelion here.

Right.

And it's important to say that they brought it here on purpose.

I saw somebody point out, like, it didn't hitch a ride.

It was, like, purposefully brought here.

And the idea that dandelions suck is a really recent development, especially compared to how long people valued and prized dandelions.

I just find that fascinating.

For sure.

This thing is about 30 million years old, native in sort of Atlantic Europe all the way to Siberia.

And in the northern hemisphere, you're going to know a dandelion because between March and October, you're going to see these beautiful yellow flowers.

You'll see some what's called a rosette, which are these very short level ground stems that grow in a circular pattern.

And then these little slender green hollow stalks, you know, 2 to 20 inches.

But usually, at least around here, the dandelions are, I don't know, like 8 inches.

Yeah, that seems about right.

That's my experience as well.

So one of the other really impressive things about the dandelion is if you look really closely at the flower, each individual petal has a little what becomes the part of the puff ball when the flower seeds.

It already is attached.

And that thing is called the pappus.

And at the bottom of the pappus is the seed.