 |
Tragopogon porrifolius |
 |
Raised from traded seed labeled "Tragopogon croculifolia", I'm pretty sure this is instead purple salsify - a wildflower with culinary uses. Not exactly suitable for the tidy perennial border, with its lanky upright growth, but welcome in messier beds. Probably biennial - our plants made nice healthy clumps in their first year, and sent up their flowerstalks in May of the following year. We'll see if it chooses to self-seed.
|
This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Tragopogon porrifolius
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Elzo Stubbe | Feb 02, 2010 | After flowering the seeds gradually spread out over the flowerhead en get more brownish. When you touch the seeds and they easily fall to the ground, the time has come to harvest them. |
- Seed from '06 trade. Baggy 70F (90%G, 4-9d)
I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to
leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors
to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if
appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an
ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including
html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a
comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my
guestbook. If you
have a question that needs a personal response, please
e-mail me.
|
