Well, we always tested ourselves to see if we liked butter with a buttercup held under the chin. Unsurprisingly, it was found that everyone liked butter. A dandelion "flower" is actually a tight inflorescence of many tiny, strap-shaped flowers, called ray florets. They are all a lovely lemony-yellow, though the outermost layer of florets are yellow on top and, usually, a shiny grey underneath. Every floret has tiny teeth at its tip. Each floret has the potential to produce a single, dry one-seeded fruit with a tuft of hairs (the pappus) atop a little stalk, the whole thing being capable of being wafted away, when ripe, on the slightest breeze. Not a miracle, but a glorious phenomenon of evolution. Dandelions also have fascinating sex lives, but that's for another time.