Tragopogon crocifoliusL.

WFO wfo-0000004808 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 201768457
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. b Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119533108
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114646926
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108007191
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. e Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115350738
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. f Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118303507
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. g Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200930853
Tragopogon crocifolius, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. h Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200931146

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Tragopogon crocifolius is native: Algeria, Morocco, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden AlgeriaMoroccoFranceItalyNorwayPortugalSiciliaSpainSweden
Native distribution of Tragopogon crocifolius, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Norway NOR
Portugal POR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tragopogon crocifolius var. flaviflorus Willk.
  • Tragopogon crocifolius var. flocculosus DC.
  • Tragopogon flaviflorus (Willk.) Willk.
  • Tragopogon floccosus subsp. floccosus
  • Tragopogon floccosus var. floccosus
  • Tragopogon nebrodensis Guss.
  • Tragopogon parviflorus Hornem.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.