Urospermum picroides

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Cichorioideae
Tribus: Cichorieae
Subtribus: Hypochaeridinae
Genus: Urospermum
Species: Urospermum picroides
Name

Urospermum picroides (L.) Scop. ex F.W.Schmidt
Synonyms

Arnopogon asper (L.) Willd.
Arnopogon capensis (Jacq.) Willd.
Arnopogon picroides (L.) Willd.
Tragopogon aculeatus Moench
Tragopogon asper L.
Tragopogon capensis Jacq.
Tragopogon picroides L. (
Tragopogon sonchifolius Salisb.
Tragopogonodes picrodes (L.) Kuntze
Urospermum asperum (L.) DC.
Urospermum capense (Jacq.) Spreng.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
France, Portugal, Spain, Baleares (Ibiza & Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca), Gibraltar, Austria, Monaco, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Kiklades), Crete, East Aegaean Isl., Rhodos, European Turkey, Cyprus (C-Mountains, E-Cyprus, N-Cyprus, S-Cyprus
Continental: Africa
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt (Desert Oases, Eastern Desert, Great Southwestern Desert, Nile Delta, SE-Egypt) , Azores (Santa Maria Isl., Sao Miguel Isl., Terceira, Graciosa, Sao Jorge, Pico, Faial), Madeira (Madeira Isl., Ilhas Desertas, Porto Santo Isl.), Canary Isl. (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, Hierro, La Palma Isl.), Cape Verde Isl. (Santo Antao Isl., Sao Vicente Isl., Ilha de Sao Tiago, Fogo Isl., Ilha Brava)
Continental: Asie
Georgia [Caucasus], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkey (N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, S-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia, W-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia), Bahrain, W-Cyprus), Iran (EC-Iran, N-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, S-Iran, W-Iran), Iraq (NE-Iraq, NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia, W-Iraq: Desert), Israel (Rift Valley, N-Israel, N-Negev Desert, Judean Desert, Negev Desert, coastal W-Israel), Jordania (S-Jordania, W-Jordania), Kuwait, Lebanon (Antilebanon, C-Lebanon, coastal W-Lebanon), Oman (Mascat & Oman), Saudi Arabia (N-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz, Asir, E-Saudi Arabia), Sinai peninsula (C-Sinai, N-Sinai, S-Sinai), Qatar, Syria (C-Syrian Desert, Jazira, NW-Syria, Jbel Druze, W-Syrian Mountains), Yemen (W-Yemen, Aden Desert, Inner Yemen)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

Scopoli, J.A., 1785. Samml. Phys.-Oekon. Aufsatze 1: 275.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Urospermum picroides. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 28. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Urospermum picroides. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 28 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Urospermum picroides in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 28.
Tropicos.org 2019. Urospermum picroides. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 28.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Urospermum picroides in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Bitterkraut-Schwefelkörbchen - -
English: Prickly Goldenfleece
español: Barba De Viejo

Urospermum picroides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name prickly goldenfleece. It is native to Eurasia and it is known as an introduced species in many other regions, including North and South America, Australia, and southern Africa. It grows as a common weed in disturbed habitat. This annual herb grows up to 30 to 50 centimeters tall. It is coated in long hairs and bristles. The bristly leaves are variously shaped, often divided into many sharp-toothed lobes. The inflorescence bears flower heads on thick peduncles. The head is 1 to 2 centimeters long or more and filled with yellow ray florets. It is enveloped in several pointed phyllaries which are covered in bristly hairs. The fruit is an achene well over a centimeter in length which is tipped with a pappus of bristles.