yellow salsify

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   European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower

   SynonymsTragopogon dubius

   Broaderwildflower

Questions about yellow salsify

What does yellow salsify mean?

yellow salsify means "European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower".

What is another word for yellow salsify?

Close synonyms include Tragopogon dubius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellow salsify a common word?

yellow salsify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.