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Tragopogon porrifolius

(Vegetable Oyster Plant)

Common Names

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Common Names in Chinese:

Suan Ye Po Luo Men Shen, Suan Ye Po Luo Men Shen (Taiwan)

Common Names in Danish:

Havrerod

Common Names in Dutch:

Witte Schorseneer

Common Names in English:

Common Salsify, Goatsbeard, Oyster Plant, Oysterplant, Purple Salsify, Salsify, Vegetable Oyster, Vegetable Oyster Plant, Vegetable-Oyster, Wild Quinine

Common Names in Finnish:

Kaurajuuri

Common Names in French:

Salsifis à Feuilles De Poireau, Salsifis Blanc, Salsifis Cultivé

Common Names in German:

Gemüse-Haferwurz, Haferwurzel

Common Names in Greek:

Lagohorta, Tragopogon

Common Names in Italian:

Barbo De Becco

Common Names in Japanese:

Baramonjin, Mugina Deshiko, Sarushifai, Seiyou Gobou

Common Names in Portuguese:

Barba-De-Bode

Common Names in Spanish:

Barba Cabruna, Salsifí Blanco

Common Names in Swedish:

Haverrot

Description

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Genus Tragopogon

Biennials (sometimes winter annuals ) [perennials ], (15-) 50-150 cm; taprooted. Stems 1(-5), erect , usually branched proximally, glabrous or tomentulose to floccose [lanate ], often glabrescent . Leaves basal and cauline; sessile; blades linear to lance-linear or lance-attenuate (grasslike) [lanceolate to oblong ], (bases clasping ) margins entire (faces glabrous or tomentulose to floccose [lanate], often glabrescent). Heads borne singly (terminal ). Peduncles often inflated distally (not in T. pratensis), ebracteate . Calyculi 0. Involucres campanulate [cylindric ] (at flowering), mostly 10-20+ mm diam. Phyllaries usually [5-7] 8-12 [13-16] in 1 series, linear-lanceolate, triangular-lanceolate [oblong-lanceolate], linear, ± equal, margins white, narrowly pellucid , apices acute (faces glabrous [with intertwining hairs ]). Receptacles convex , smooth , glabrous, epaleate. Florets (30-) 50-180+; corollas yellow or purple (proximally yellow, distally purple in T. mirus) (± deliquescent). Cypselae dark to pale brown, stramineous , whitish, bodies ± fusiform to cylindric, usually beaked , beaks concolorous with, or paler than bodies, abrupt to gradually tapered, 5-10-ribbed (ribs usually muricate , prickly, or scaly ), faces usually glabrous, sometimes scaley or muricate; pappi (usually borne on discs at tips of beaks) persistent , of 12-20+, brownish to whitish, basally connate , ± plumose , subequal to unequal awns or subulate scales , in 1 series (lateral barbs or setulae often ± intertwined). x = 6.

Species 100-150 (5, including 2 amphidipl: introduced ; Eurasia , n Africa; introduced in Australia.

Tragopogon is weedy in North America. Allotetraploids T. mirus and T. miscellus are native to the United States. The heads of tragopogons usually open early mornings and close by midday.[1]

Physical Description

Species Tragopogon porrifolius

Plants 40-100(-150) cm. Leaves: apices straight (not recurved or coiled), faces usually glabrous . Peduncles distally inflated . Involucres conic in bud. Outer florets usually shorter than or equaling phyllaries; corollas purple. 2n = 12. [source]

Tragopogon porrifolius grows typically in sites drier than those of T. pratensis and in sites shadier and/or moister than those of T. dubius. As currently circumscribed, it may not be monophyletic, and nomenclatural changes for the populations here may be required. In North America, T. porrifolius hybridizes with both T. dubius and T. pratensis (= T. ×neohybridus Farwell, described from North America, and T. ×mirabilis Rouy, described from Europe). [source]

Habit: Forb/herbGrowth Form: Single CrownShape and Orientation: Erect

Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June, July, August. • Flower Color: Purple • Flower Conspicuous: Yes

Seeds: Seed per Pound: 29702 • Seed Spread Rate: Moderate • Seedling Vigor: High • Fruit/Seed Abundance: High • Fruit/Seed Color: Brown • Fruit/Seed Conspicuous: Yes • Cold Stratification Required: No

Foliage: Foliage Color: Green • Foliage Porosity Summer: Porous • Foliage Porosity Winter: Porous • Foliage Texture: CoarseFall Conspicuous: No • Leaf Retention: No

Size/Age/Growth

Active Growth Period: Spring and Summer • Growth Rate: Rapid • After Harvest Regrowth Rate: Slow • Mature Height (feet): 4.5 • Size: 24-36" tall. • Vegetative Spread Rate: None • Lifespan: Lifespan

Habitat

Disturbed sites; 200-2000 m [2].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,018 meters (0 to 9,902 feet).[3]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: BiennialCoppice Potential: No • Progagated by Bulbs: No • Propagated by Bare Root: No • Propagated by Container: No • Propagated by Corms: No • Propagated by Cuttings: No • Propagated by Seed: Yes • Propagated by Sod: No • Propagated by Sprigs: No • Propagated by Tubers: No • Fruit/Seed Period Begin: SpringFruit/Seed Period End: Summer • Fruit/Seed Persistence: Yes

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Adapted to Medium Textured: Adapted to Medium Textured Soils • Adapted to Coarse Textured Soils: Yes • Anaerobic Tolerance: None • Salinity Tolerance: None • CaCO3 Tolerance: High • Minimum pH: 5.2 • Maximum pH: 7.8 • Fertility Requirement: Medium

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade. • Shade Tolerance: Intermediate

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: Medium • Minimum Precipitation: 14 • Maximum Precipitation: 55 • Moisture Use: Medium

Temperature: Minimum Temperature (F): -28 • Minimum Frost Free Days: 110 • Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 2:789. 1753

Name verified on 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Dec-2001

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Tragopogon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 143 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

T. afghanicus · T. albinervis · T. angustifolium · T. angustifolius · T. asper · T. aureus · T. australis · T. badachschanicus · T. balcanicum · T. balcanicus · T. baylei · T. bjelorussicus · T. bornmuelleri · T. borysthenicus · T. brevirostris · T. buphtalmoides · T. buphthalmoides · T. campestris · T. capensis · T. capitatus · T. castellanus · T. cazorlanum · T. coelesyriacus · T. collinus · T. coloratus · T. crantzii (Crantz's Salsify) · T. cretaceus · T. croccifolius · T. crocifolium · T. crocifolius · T. cupani · T. dalechampii · T. dandelion · T. dasyrhynchus · T. dubius (Showy Yellow Goatsbeard) · T. dubius subsp. major · T. elatior · T. elongatus · T. eriospermus · T. floccosus (Woolly Goatsbeard) · T. geropogon · T. glaber · T. gorskianus · T. gracilis · T. graminifolia · T. graminifolius · T. grandiflorus · T. hayekii · T. heterospermus · T. hirsutus · T. hybridum · T. hybridus · T. kasahstanicus · T. kashmirianus · T. kemulariae · T. ketzkhovelii · T. kindingeri · T. kotschyi · T. krascheninnikovii · T. lamottei (Meadow Salsify) · T. lassithicus · T. latifolius · T. leiocarpos · T. lithuanicus · T. livescens · T. longifolius · T. longirostris · T. macrocephalus · T. macropogon · T. major · T. majus · T. marginatus · T. marginifolius · T. melanantherus · T. meskheticus · T. minor · T. mirabilis (Ontario Goat's-Beard) · T. mirus (Remarkable Goat's-Beard) · T. miscellus (Hybrid Goat's-Beard) · T. montanus · T. mutabilis · T. nebrodensis · T. neohybridum · T. neohybridus (Newhybrid Salsify) · T. novus · T. oligolepis · T. olympicus · T. orientalis · T. persicum · T. phaenopappus · T. pichleri · T. picroides · T. podolicus · T. porrifolium · T. porrifolius (Vegetable Oyster Plant) · T. porrifolius australis · T. porrifolius 'Giant' (Vegetable Oyster Plant) · T. porrifolius 'Mammoth Sandwich Island' (Vegetable Oyster Plant) · T. praecox · T. pratense

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 14, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Pamela S. Soltis "Tragopogon". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 215, 303, 304. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. "Tragopogon porrifolius". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 304, 306. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. Mean = 239.770 meters (786.647 feet), Standard Deviation = 481.430 based on 1,482 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009