Tragopogon porrifolius | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

Tracheophyta ›Magnoliopsida›Asteraceae›Tragopogon›Tragopogon porrifolius

Ecology

An annual or biennial herb, occasionally escaping from cultivation and naturalised on sea-walls, cliffs, rough grassland and road verges, especially in S.E. England. Elsewhere it is usually only casual. Lowland.

Status

Neophyte

Trends

This species was first recorded in the wild in Britain in 1695 (Middlesex). Its range is similar to that shown in the 1962 Atlas, but it is now better recorded.

World Distribution

Native of the Mediterranean region; the native range of the cultivated subsp. porrifolius is uncertain but it is widely naturalised in temperate Europe.