Scientific name: Tragopogon pratensis L.
Common name: Goat's beard
Description
Habit: Biennial, 35-60 cm high.
Stems: Hairless with almost unbranched, erect and leafy flowering stems.
Leaves: Alternate, long, narrow leaves, almost grass-like, tapering gradually from base to tip.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads solitary; involucral bracts about 8, equal-length, 25 mm or more in length, usually longer than the florets; florets all ligulate.
Fruits: An achene, rather rough with a long beak, with a widely spreading feathery pappus of branched hairs.
Habitat: Waste ground.
Distribution: Very rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No