>>300145>invasive status.Dandelion aren't technically "invasive." Which is a specific term for either non-indigenous species in the wrong environment (live rabbits in Australia or kudzu in the south of the USA) or a term for indigenous species that cause any manner of problems with the environment and other species (sudden algae blooms that kill fish in streams and lakes). Dandelions don't do any of that. In fact, they help out in a great many of ways.
Seriously, people that think dandelions are terrible, invasive weeds, are those that have been completely brainwashed by Monsanto propaganda. The only place they don't look good in or are against something is in a perfectly pure manicured lawn where the owner wants only a single type of grass for purely aesthetic reasons. While in the garden they are actually a boon to the garden both in food value and with helping other plants grow, fruit, and ripen.
Here, read up on them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum#PropertiesIt seems, in the USA Dandelions are the goat meat of the vegetable world. Everyone else eats tons of them, but most in the USA (and now starting in Europe) think they are beneath them. All is due to Monsanto's anti-weed advertisements.
