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Tragopogon pratensis

Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, meadow goat's beard, meadow salsify, salsifis des prés
Habit Plants (15–)40–100 cm.
Leaves

apices usually recurved to coiled, faces initially tomentulose to floccose, soon glabrescent.
Peduncles

usually little, if at all, inflated (at flowering, may be inflated in fruit), initially floccose to tomentulose, soon glabrescent.
Involucres

urceolate in bud.
Outer

florets equaling or surpassing phyllaries;

corollas yellow.
2n

= 12.

Tragopogon pratensis
Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Disturbed sites
Elevation 10–2100 m (0–6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Tragopogon pratensis is naturalized across much of North America. The circumscription and infraspecific taxonomy of T. pratensis in Europe are debated, and the name T. pratensis may prove to be inaccurately assigned to the introduced populations in North America.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 305.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Tragopogon
Sibling taxa
T. dubius, T. mirus, T. miscellus, T. porrifolius
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 789. (1753)
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