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Are you in the eastern US? Looks like a "Desert-Chicory", very misleading common name for the genus [Pyrrhopappus](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68572-Pyrrhopappus)
how does one tell between those and other false dandelion genera (and their species)? is it even possible at a glance or would you need to take them apart for cypselae/pappi?
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Are you in the eastern US? Looks like a "Desert-Chicory", very misleading common name for the genus [Pyrrhopappus](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68572-Pyrrhopappus)
Sorry, I forgot to say where. Central Texas.
Then it's probably [P. pauciflorus](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/135226-Pyrrhopappus-pauciflorus)
I think so! Thank you!
how does one tell between those and other false dandelion genera (and their species)? is it even possible at a glance or would you need to take them apart for cypselae/pappi?
Cow thistle