Israel wildflowers | Long-Beaked Goat’s Beard

Tragopogon coelesyriacus, Tragopogon longirostris, Long-Beaked Goat’s Beard,

Hebrew: זקן-תיש ארוך, Arabic: سلسفيل طويل المنقار


Scientific name:		Tragopogon coelesyriacus Boiss.
Synonym name:		Tragopogon longirostris Sch.Bip.
Common name:		Long-Beaked Goat’s Beard
Hebrew name:		זקן-תיש ארוך
Arabic name:		سلسفيل طويل المنقار
Plant Family:		Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים


Life form:		Hemicryptophyte
Stems:		15-60cm
Leaves:		Alternate, rosette, entire, narrowly linear
Inflorescence:		Capitula solitairy or few
Flowers:		Violet
Fruits / pods:		Achene; beak about twice as long as body of achene, distinctly clavate
Flowering Period:		April, May, June, July
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Med – Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name:

Tragopogon, Greek tragos, a goat; pogon, a beard; Goat’s-beard Salsify. The pappus of these herbs is silky.

coelesyriacus, coelum, coel, “heaven”, syriacus, “from Syria”; heaven from Syria.
longirostris, long-beaked.
The Hebrew name: זקן-תיש, zakan (=beard), tays (= he-goat), translated from the scientific name: Tragopogon (goat’s-beard).

The standard author abbreviation Boiss. is used to indicate Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810 – 1885), a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician.
The standard author abbreviation Sch.Bip. is used to indicate Carl Heinrich Bipontinus Schultz (1805 – 1867), a German physician and botanist.

_{Location: Netanya, Sergeants Grove}