Geropogon glaber Slender Salsify
This is an occasional bird-seed alien in the UK but a fairly common wayside plant in southern Spain, Crete, Cyprus and other southern Mediterranean countries.
Geropogon glaber used to be known as Tragopogon hybridus until the name was changed in New Flora of the British Isles Edition 3 92010) by Clive Stace.
Near Cortijo Valverde, Andalucia, 29th March 2008
Added on January 19th 2005, renamed and updated 15th February 2012