goatsbeard

goats·beard

also goat's-beard G0169800 (gōts′bîrd′)n.1. Any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Tragopogon of the composite family, having grasslike leaves and yellow, dandelionlike flower heads, some species of which are widely naturalized in North America.2. Any of several dioecious plants of the genus Aruncus of the rose family, native to northern regions, having pinnately compound leaves and a large panicle of small white flowers.

goatsbeard

(ˈɡəʊtsˌbɪəd) or

goat's-beard

n1. (Plants) Also called: Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon a Eurasian plant, Tragopogon pratensis, with woolly stems and large heads of yellow rayed flowers surrounded by large green bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)2. (Plants) an American rosaceous plant, Aruncus sylvester, with long spikes of small white flowers

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goatsbeard - weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United Statesmeadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensiswild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plantgenus Tragopogon, Tragopogon - genus of Old World herbs with linear entire leaves and yellow or purple flower heads

goatsbeard

goatsbeard,

common name for plants of the genus Tragopogon (see salsifysalsify,
common name for a tall, narrow-leaved biennial (Tragopogon porrifolius) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), native to S Europe but now naturalized and sometimes growing as a weed in North America.
..... Click the link for more information. ) of the family Asteraceae (asteraster
[Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
..... Click the link for more information. family) and of the genus Aruncus of the family Rosaceae (roserose,
common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of the genus Rosa, the true roses.
..... Click the link for more information. family), related to the spiraeas. False goatsbeard, a saxifrage, is named for its resemblance to Aruncus. The two families are classified in the orders Asterales and Rosales, respectively. These orders belong to the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida.

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noun weedy European annual with yellow flowers

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