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Published 2014
None of the three is widely popular, but salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius, is the best known. It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat’s beard, T. pratensis. Indeed Tragopogon means ‘goat’s beard’, a reference to the hairy seed ‘clocks’ of these plants. The meaning of porrifolium is ‘leek-leafed’, which is a fair description.