Taxon: Tragopogon porrifolius L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Tragopogon porrifolius subsp. australis (3 accessions)

Common names:

• oysterplant   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• salsify   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• vegetable-oyster   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• witte schorseneer   (Source: S. Staten, p.c.) – Dutch
  
• salsifis blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Haferwurzel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Weißwurzel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• scorzobianca   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• baramonjin   (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• barba-de-bode   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• barba cabruna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• salsifí blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• haverrot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (tubers & young shoots fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Econ Pl Aust)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey [w.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Netherlands
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Germany; Poland; Switzerland

• also cultivated

References:

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• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature.
• Blanca, G. & C. Diaz de la Guardia. 1996. Sinopsis del género Tragopogon L. (Asteraceae) en la Peninsula Iberica. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 54:360.
• Clements, D. R. et al. 1999. The biology of Canadian weeds. 110. Tragopogon dubius Scop., Tragopogon pratensis L., and Tragopogon porrifolius L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 79:153–163.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
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• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
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• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
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• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
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• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Staten, S. 2006. pers. comm. [re. common names].
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• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tragopogon porrifolius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tragopogon porrifolius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tragopogon porrifolius.

Synonyms:

• Tragopogon sinuatus Avé-Lall. [= Tragopogon porrifolius subsp. australis]
  

Check other web resources for Tragopogon porrifolius L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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