...I always make a wish if I can blow all the
seeds off. (
Smart plants, they made
subliminal suggestions to we mere
humans and now we believe such things. They, in turn, get their seeds blown "
'til Kingdom come". Amazing...)
The "German word for "Dandelion" is "Loewenzahn" (properly "Löwenzahn") - which means "Lion's tooth" (pretty natural if one looks at Webster's definiton. Good ole' Webster...) And in Germany they have a kids program after the same name. I saw it for the first time last week. Mr. Löwenzahn passed along all types of information about them. To add to that of knifegirl, the roots can be made into a coffee and the sap into a honey-like product.
All together nifty...