Yellow salsify
Tragopogon dubius Scop.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 60 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Common salsify, Greater goatsbeard, Meadow goatsbeard, Western salsify, Wild oysterplant
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Xinjiang and HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 41 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Czech
- kozí brada pochybná
- German
- Grosser Bocksbart, Großer Bocksbart
- Finnish
- etelänpukinparta
- French
- salsifis pâle
- Dutch
- bleke morgenster, Bleke morgenster
- Slovenian
- velika kozja brada
- Chinese
- 长喙婆罗门参, 霜毛婆罗门参
- Simplified Chinese
- 长喙婆罗门参, 霜毛婆罗门参
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Tragopogon dubius (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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