Common Names: Western Goat's Beard, Wild Oysterplant, Yellow Salsify, Yellow Goat's Beard, Meadow Goat's Beard, Goat's Beard, Goatsbeard.

Non-native

No listed varieties

Note unique flower and long green bracts on erect stem. Yellow flower (ray) petals (rounded tips) with green narrow sharp tipped bracts which are much longer than petals. Yellow anthers on black filaments. Flowers generally open in the morning and close by noon/ late afternoon. Leaves are narrow, sharp tipped (grass like) and clasping. Note grey color of seed pods. Grows in disturbed areas, coastal bluffs, shrub-steppes.

east WA; north Puget Sound; east Central Cascades
TRAILS: Rosa Butte; American Camp -San Juan Island;
HABITAT: disturbed area, coastal wetland
ELEVATION: 835 meters (2,735 feet); 30 meters (100 feet)
BLOOM TIME: 20-JUN; 08-JUN