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The dandelion is another plant which has a 
head made up of many flowers. You can tell 
how many flowers there have been when the 
seeds are ripe and ready to blow away. Every 
The clover, dandelion, daisy, and many other 
common flowers are really many flowers in one 
seed stands for a flower. Sometimes there 
are as many as two hundred flowers on the 
head of one dandelion. 
Plants which have heads holding many small 
flowers belong to the Composite family. Many 
