Dandelion Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is a perennial of the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to Europe and Asia and now a familiar weed of lawns, meadows, and roadsides across North America and every temperate region. It forms a flat rosette of deeply toothed, lance-shaped leaves, the lion's teeth of its French-derived name, from which hollow, leafless stalks 10 to 40 centimeters tall each carry a single golden-yellow flower head that opens in the morning and closes at night. The head ripens into the round white seed clock children blow away. Every part bleeds milky latex, and the thick, dark brown taproot is bitter. We extract the dried leaf and root separately.