Common name
English: Sheep's Beard
German: Weichhaariges Schwefelkörbchen
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2611)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2511)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2123)
Order: Asterales (221)
Family: Asteraceae (219)(family description)
Genus: Urospermum (2)
Epithet: dalechampii (L.) Scop. ex F. W. Schund. (1)
Synonym: Tragopogon dalechampii L.
dalechampii => in honour of Jacques Daléchamps, (Lyons, 1513–1588), surgeon, physicist and botanist
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: yellow