Urospermum picroides
Prickly goldenfleece Γαλατσίδα
Asteraceae - daisy family Dicot.
Urospermum picroides is one of many plants with yellow dandelion-like flowers to be found on Skopelos. It is distinguished by its pear shaped bud, the bracts are curved giving a deeply grooved appearance to the buds and seed heads; the heads are very bristly. The young basal leaves can be eaten as a salad plant or boiled. It has a picante flavour giving rise to the species name which which roughly translates to a type of bitter (leaf).
❉17-25mm, ↨ 20-40cm, ,
,℞,W JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Urospermum from oura (οοπά)=Greek for tail and spermum from sporos (σπόπος) =Greek for seed
Picroides - from picris (πικρός)=Greek for bitter
+ oides - from Greek eidos (είδος) meaning a kind of, or type of
