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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Cichorioideae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Genus:	Krigia
Species:	K. occidentalis
Binomial name
*Krigia occidentalis* Nutt.
Synonyms
Adopogon occidentale (Nutt.) Kuntze Adopogon occidentalis (Nutt.) Kuntze Cymbia occidentalis (Nutt.) Standl. Krigia bellidioides Scheele Krigia nervosa Hook.

Krigia occidentalis, known as western dwarfdandelion, is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to the southern Great Plains and the Ozark Mountains of the south-central United States (Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana).

Krigia occidentalis is a small annual rarely more than 16 cm (6.4 inches) tall, with a taproot. The plant produces only one flower hear per flower stalk, each head with 5–25 yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.

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