Taraxacum pseudohamatum Dahlst., a dandelion
This very robust microspecies, which is normally the earliest dandelion to flower, is considered one of the commonest in B & I, although it is scarce in the far north of Britain and in the W of Ireland. The Dandelion Handbook authors commented that it is almost confined to the British Isles but, in view of this, rather unexpectedly, it is weedy and more characteristic of disturbed, artificial habitats such as roadsides, rather than natural or semi-natural situations (Dudman & Richards 1997).
There is just one record in Fermanagh collected by P. Hackney in 1975. The site details including BEL voucher Accession Numbers are: roadside verge near Glenwhinny Hill, 2 km NE of Derrygonnelly, 27 March, three vouchers H5021, H5023 and H5025.
T. pseudohamatum has been recorded in eleven Irish VCs, mainly in the N & E of the island, and Map 50 in the Dandelion Handbook contains a total of 25 Irish hectads, three of them in Fermanagh. In comparison, the later Field Handbook map of Ireland displays around 44 hectads with records, and the plant is also found in France and Denmark (Richards 2021).
References
Field Handbook; Dandelion Handbook