Krigia dandelion, known as potato dwarfdandelion, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southeastern and south-central United States, from the Florida Panhandle to Texas and north as far as Kansas, southern Illinois, and Maryland

Krigia dandelion is an perennial herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. One plant generally produces one flower head per flower stalk, each head with 25–34 yellow or yellow-orange ray flowers but no disc flowers.

Krigia dandelion

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Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1988

Krigia dandelion

Cichorieae

Flora of the Southeastern United States

Endemic flora of the United States

Plants described in 1753

Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall

Flora without expected TNC conservation status

Krigia dandelion