In the early 1900s, humans introduced three species of goatsbeard into North America.

With plants like common dandelion and goatsbeard, all aboveground parts of the plant were sometimes eaten.

A perennial that is easy to care for, goatsbeard is seemingly impervious to insects or disease.

At 6 weeks of age, goatsbeard reached its peak in the diet and sego lily was found in greatest volume a week later.

Albugo tragopogonis, white rust of goatsbeard (Tragopogon).

The flowers are like that of Goatsbeard Tragopogon pratensis, but are larger and dull purple, 30-50mm across.

A Tough Perennial Q. I have a partially shaded spot and was advised to plant something called goatsbeard.

In a mountain cabin beyond a dusty road lined with bear grass and goatsbeard, she plays and wins a game of Trivial Pursuit.

Aruncus dioicus (goatsbeard) occurs throughout the cooler parts of Europe, Asia and North America.

Aruncus sylvester (Asian goatsbeard) covers the widespread Asian forms of A. dioicus.

One area is grazed by cattle and sheep, which is helping to bring back wildflowers such as cowslips, southern marsh orchids and goatsbeard.

Aruncus gombalanus (Yunnan goatsbeard) occurs in the mountains of northwest Yunnan and adjacent Tibet.

Aruncus aethusifolius (dwarf goatsbeard or Korean goatsbeard) has a restricted range, limited to Korea.

The survey indicates these include cleome, four-o'clock, verbena, heliotrope, globe thistle, goatsbeard, coreopsis, verbascum, Jacob's ladder, bee balm, ajuga, lily of the valley and wisteria.

Albugo tragopogonis is the old name for Pustula tragopogonis[1], the causal agent of white blister disease on goatsbeard (Tragopogon spp.)

It is commonly known as purple or common salsify, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Jerusalem star, goatsbeard or simply salsify (although these last two names are also applied to other species, as well).

Okra's ogress mother, disappointed by Okra's pipsqueak size, had tried to compensate by giving her a name to grow into: Okra Cordata Saxifrage Goatsbeard Ganas Ogress.

Some of the more common species of 'Tragopogon' are known, in the regions where they are most common, by the common names goat's beard, goatsbeard, salsify, or common salsify, without further qualification.

Its diet consists of the seeds from a wide variety of annual plants, often those of weeds grasses and trees, such as thistle, teasel, dandelion, ragweed, mullein, cosmos, goatsbeard, sunflower, and alder.

He's the spatton spit, so he is, scaly skin and all, with his blackguarded eye and the goatsbeard in his buttinghole of Shemuel Tulliver, me grandsourd, the old cruxader, when he off with his paudeen!

They include Western Goat's Beard, Wild Oysterplant, Yellow Salsify, Yellow Goat's Beard, Meadow Goat's Beard, Goat's Beard, Goatsbeard, Common Salsify, or Salsify.

Tragopogon, also known as salsify or goatsbeard, is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family Asteraceae that has over 140 species, including the vegetable known as salsify, as well as a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds.

In tribute to Virginia Bloedel's fondness for flowering plants, for example, and to give the reserve more year-round interest, a gentle slope in the newest area of the property has been laid out with overlapping, curvilinear beds for unusual perennials both native and exotic, such as Bowan's root, goatsbeard and monkshood.

Black Salsify has been used for a long time to treat poisonous snake bites.

Because Western Salsify is a widespread plant, it has a large number of alternative common names.

Young shoots and roots of Meadow Salsify can be used in diabetic salads.

Tragopogon porrifolius (also called Purple Salsify)

For example Salsify, the hybrid goat's-beard, (Tragopogon miscellus) has formed as many as 20 times in eastern Washington.

Like most salsifies, the Western Salsify grows as an annual or occasionally biennial forb, reaching a height of typically 20-60 cm but sometimes almost a metre.

Western Salsify is quite similar to the generally commoner Meadow Salsify, T. pratensis, but the bracts which show behind the flower, a distinctive feature of salsifies, are longer and more noticeable.

Tragopogon dubius (Western Salsify, etc.) is a species of Salsify native to southern and central Europe and western Asia and found as far north and west as northern France.

Western Salsify has been introduced into North America where it has become widespread, being reported from all the continental United States except for a few in the far south-east, and all provinces of Canada except Newfoundland and the northern territories.

Now I was staring at a menu that listed Belgian Salsify Soup With White Truffle Oil, Jumbo Lump Crabmeat Salad With Cumin Crisps, Crawfish in Puff Pastry With Pananga Curry Sauce.

Unlike some other species of salsify such as the Oyster Plant Tragopogon porrifolius, Western Salsify is not generally regarded as edible, though the root can be eaten (raw or cooked) and so can the young stems.

They include Western Goat's Beard, Wild Oysterplant, Yellow Salsify, Yellow Goat's Beard, Meadow Goat's Beard, Goat's Beard, Goatsbeard, Common Salsify, or Salsify.

Although not particularly closely related to Meadow Salsify or the Common Salsify or Oyster Plant (T. porrifolius), the Western Salsify hybridises readily with both, and in North America its hybrids have given rise to the new alloploid hybrid species T. mirus and T. miscellus.

A synonym, Tragopogon major, may also be encountered.

As with other Tragopogon species, its stem is largely unbranched, and the leaves are somewhat grasslike.

It also grows wild in many places and is one of the most widely known species of the salsify genus, Tragopogon.

Tragopogon porrifolius is a plant cultivated for its ornamental flower, edible root, and herbal properties.

The flowers are like that of Goatsbeard Tragopogon pratensis, but are larger and dull purple, 30-50mm across.

Tragopogon dubius (I)

Tragopogon porrifolius (also called Purple Salsify)

Phylogeny of Tragopogon L. (Asteraceae) based on internal and external transcribed spacer sequence data.

Recent and recurrent polyploidy in Tragopogon (Asteraceae): cytogenetic, genomic and genetic comparisons.

The achenes are smooth ribbed, beakless, with similar pappus to Goats Beard Tragopogon pratensis.

For example Salsify, the hybrid goat's-beard, (Tragopogon miscellus) has formed as many as 20 times in eastern Washington.

USDA Plants database Tragopogon L.

Other species are also used in the same way, including the black or Spanish salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, which is closely related though not a member of the genus Tragopogon.

Molecular data reveal that the allotetraploid Tragopogon kashmirianus Singh, a narrow endemic of Kashmir, is distinct from the North American T. mirus.

It differs from Goats Beard, Tragopogon pratensis, in that it has short, pale green bracts, whereas in Goats Beard they are long and pointed.

Some of the more common species of 'Tragopogon' are known, in the regions where they are most common, by the common names goat's beard, goatsbeard, salsify, or common salsify, without further qualification.

Unlike some other species of salsify such as the Oyster Plant Tragopogon porrifolius, Western Salsify is not generally regarded as edible, though the root can be eaten (raw or cooked) and so can the young stems.

The vegetable called salsify is usually the root of purple salsify, 'Tragopogon porrifolius'; the root is described as having the taste of oysters (hence the alternative common name "oyster plant" for some species in this genus), but more insipid with a touch of sweetness.

A study published in March 2011 found that when these two plants were introduced to North America in the 1920s, they mated and doubled the number of chromosomes in there hybrid Tragopogon miscellus allowing for a "reset" of its genes, which in turn, allows for greater genetic variation.