Dandelion flowers in two stages of growth, growing at will through the yard.
Use potted flowers that look like dandelions to get the look you want without the hassle. Dandelions are bright yellow and attractive, but they are also very invasive weeds that few want in their home or garden. Rather than growing weeds within your home, choose potted plants that closely resemble dandelions -- but don't act like them.
Lookalike Flowers
Many different flowers grow blossoms which greatly resemble those found on dandelions -- small, yellow and with lots of petals. Though many of the flowers that look like dandelions are considered wildflowers, which grow easily without cultivation, there is no reason you cannot pot them and grow them indoors. Spiny-leaved sow thistle has flowers and foliage that makes it look very similar to dandelions. Mouse-ear hawkweed flowers look similar to dandelions, growing on long, slender stems. Yellow hawkweed flowers grow in small clusters, the blossoms growing yellow flowers with many petals. Yellow goatsbear look like dandelions in both bloom and seed stages. The flowers have petals and coloring that resemble dandelions, with somewhat longer sepals and fewer petals on the blossoms. Like dandelions, the petals dry out and the blossoms become fuzzy, round seed heads.
Lookalike Foliage
Wild lettuce and prickly lettuce, both of which may be potted for indoor growth, have foliage which very much resembles dandelion plants. Small yellow flowers sprout on wild lettuce plants, making the resemblance even stronger. Wild lettuce may grow very tall, reaching heights of up to 10 feet, so regular pruning is necessary.
Off-Color Lookalikes
Aster flowers have yellow centers and small blossoms that grow in shades of pink, violet, lavender and white. The small flower heads have multiple petals, giving the blossom the fringed look that makes them look like off-color dandelions. Two-flowered Cynthia flowers have large blossoms when compared to dandelions, the stems a little slimmer. The flowers of the two-flowered Cynthia may grow more orange in color than yellow, but the structure of the blossoms is very similar to dandelions.
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