Index / Search / Tragopogon porrifolius
§1 Plant
Tragopogon porrifolius L.
vernacular salsify — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Tragopogon
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 289 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.8
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 29,702
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 289 counties across 27 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 40 I ▾
- Bureau 17011
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- De Witt 17039
- DuPage 17043
- Edwards 17047
- Effingham 17049
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Jackson 17077
- Jefferson 17081
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Lake 17097
- Livingston 17105
- Logan 17107
- Macon 17115
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Moultrie 17139
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Piatt 17147
- Putnam 17155
- Randolph 17157
- Sangamon 17167
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- Wabash 17185
- Warren 17187
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Bartholomew 18005
- Cass 18017
- Clark 18019
- Delaware 18035
- Elkhart 18039
- Greene 18055
- Hancock 18059
- Howard 18067
- Huntington 18069
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Johnson 18081
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lawrence 18093
- Madison 18095
- Marion 18097
- Miami 18103
- Monroe 18105
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Noble 18113
- Putnam 18133
- Rush 18139
- St. Joseph 18141
- Steuben 18151
- Wabash 18169
- Wells 18179
Kansas view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Berrien 26021
- Cheboygan 26031
- Clinton 26037
- Emmet 26047
- Gratiot 26057
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Ingham 26065
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Lenawee 26091
- Mackinac 26097
- Mecosta 26107
- Midland 26111
- Oakland 26125
- Ottawa 26139
- Saginaw 26145
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Missouri view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Adams 39001
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Butler 39017
- Clermont 39025
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Darke 39037
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Geauga 39055
- Holmes 39075
- Jefferson 39081
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Logan 39091
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Marion 39101
- Medina 39103
- Mercer 39107
- Miami 39109
- Montgomery 39113
- Morrow 39117
- Muskingum 39119
- Ottawa 39123
- Portage 39133
- Putnam 39137
- Sandusky 39143
- Seneca 39147
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Union 39159
- Vinton 39163
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
- Wood 39173
- Wyandot 39175
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 18 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRPO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5386938 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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