Genus: Tragopogon
Genus description:
Annual , biennial or perennial herbs. Stems usually solitary, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, entire, the cauline sheating. Capitula solitary or few. Involucral bracts in 1 row. Achenes fusiform, with 5-10 more or less distinct ribs, usually beaked, the beak usually with an annulus separating it from the pappus; pappus of 1 row of mostly plumose hairs, or the outer achenes with a pappus of 1 row of scabrid, rigid hairs.Because of the uncertainty about the morphological nature of the underground parts in his genus, these are caled rootstocks in this account. Characters of leaves refer to the lower cualine leaves, and of ligules and achenes (except where otherwise stated) to those of the outer florets. Length of achenes inculdes the beak, when present.
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