Taraxacum officinale, or fairly well known as dandelion? Nope. No ID from me, but on my native plant field trips we called these sorts DYCs for Dirty Yellow Composites. That's not an official name of course. While Taraxacum officinale has long basal rosette leaves, it does not have leaves above the ground. Sometimes people who grow it for food will have large leaves sticking up, but they are still a basal rosette, and do not bolt like Brassicas do. And the flower stems on dandelion are hollow, with a slight amount of milky sap.
Dear thanrose, Taraxacum officinale is almost for sure not fairly well known as a dandelion in Albania. Plants common names vary from country to country, or even from region to region. English language common names may or may not be the same in all English speaking countries, but they are certainly not the “common names” in other countries. Giving English common names to people from non-English speaking countries is meaningless, unnecessary and has the strong potential to create confusion.
Internet communications are necessarily brief. That's a generalization, as is the one that all Canadians are polite. Anyone, anywhere, who is searching for pictures and information on Taraxacum officinale, might want to know an alias that will point to more information, more uses, and more lore that might be otherwise overlooked. This particular poster has demonstrated a keen mind and flexibility in thinking. I do not think she would believe that I was suggesting that people in Tirana would use the name "dandelion", or that they should. My reference to a common name she will encounter, and to my personal anecdote about DYC in general, are not simply casual commentary. They are some of the things a field researcher would note and extrapolate. Field research tends not to be so pedantic.
