Scorzonera judaica

Scorzonera judaica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Scorzonera
Species:
S. judaica
Binomial name
Scorzonera judaica
Synonyms[1][2][3]
List
  • Gelasia psychrophila (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Zaika, Sukhor. & N.Kilian
  • Scorzonera psychrophila Boiss. & Hausskn.
  • Scorzonera pseudolanata Grossh.
  • Scorzonera persica Boiss. & Buhse

Scorzonera judaica, commonly called Jordanian viper's grass[1], Judean viper's grass[1], or what was earlier known as salsify,[4] is a species of geophyte of the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean as far as Afghanistan.

  1. ^ a b c The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, Flora of Israel and adjacent areas / Scorzonera judaica, by Prof. Avinoam Danin and Dr. Ori Fragman-Sapir
  2. ^ Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
  3. ^ MA Zaika, N. Kilian, K. Jones, AA Krinitsina, MV Nilova, AS Speranskaya, AP Sukhorukov (2020), "Scorzonera sensu lato (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) – taxonomic reassessment in the light of new molecular phylogenetic and carpological analyses". In: PhytoKeys , Volume 137, pp. 1–85. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.137.46544
  4. ^ At the start of the 20th-century, the genus Scorzonera was generally thought to be species of "wild salsify," as shown by the 1900 Library of Congress photograph of Scorzonera papposa from Palestine.

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