Annual herb ; up to 40 cm high , with white latex . Stems sparingly branched , with slender spine-like bristles . Leaves with basal leaves rosulate , up to 14 × 4 cm , obovate to oblanceolate , almost entire to pinnatifid , hispid to spinulose of simple bristles ; stem leaves lanceolate , auriculate , smaller , otherwise similar . Inflorescences solitary heads at the end of the branches . Flowers pale yellow . Fruit achenes , almost straight to s-shaped , with a long , slender beak distinctly longer than the 4–5 mm long body . Seeds pappus , with plumose bristles , 9–12 mm long , caducous . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Arnopogon picroides (L.) Willd.
Tragopogon picroides L.
Tragopogonodes picrodes (L.) Kuntze
No data
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Prickly Goldenfleece
False Hawkbit
Sheep's Beard
Prickly Urospermum
Not used traditionally. However, known given to livestock. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387.*http://beta.floranorthamerica.org *https://en.wikipedia.org *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *https://antropocene.it
