Asteraceae
Black salsify
Pseudopodospermum hispanicum
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Pseudopodospermum
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Common names
By language (37)
- Arabic
- سلسفي هسباني, خس الكلاب, دبح, دبح زراعي, سلسفي اسود, سلسفيل أسود, فومي أسود, قعبارون
- arz
- سلسفى هسبانى
- azb
- ساققیز اوْتو
- Basque
- Eskortzonera
- Belarusian
- Скарцанера, Чорны салодкі корань
- Bulgarian
- Испански кокеш
- Catalan
- Escurçonera de nap
- Chinese
- 黑婆罗门参
- cv
- Испан кашличи
- Czech
- Hadí mord španělský
- Danish
- Skorzonerrod
- Dutch
- Grote schorseneer, Schorseneren
- English
- Black salsify, Scorzonera, Serpent root, Spanish salsify, Viper's grass
- Estonian
- Aed-mustjuur
- Finnish
- Mustajuuri
- French
- Salsifis, Scorsonère d'Espagne
- frr
- Suartrut
- Galician
- Escorzoneira
- German
- Garten-Schwarzwurzel, Schwarzwurzel
- Hungarian
- Feketegyökér
- Italian
- Scorzonera
- Japanese
- スコルツォネラヒスパニカ
- Korean
- 검은쇠채
- Kurdish
- Sping
- Latvian
- Melnsakne
- Lithuanian
- Valgomoji gelteklė
- Luxembourgish
- Salsifi, Salsifis, Salzifi, Schwaarzwuerzel
- Macedonian
- Шпанска змијавка
- mul
- Myscolus hispanicus
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Svartrot
- Polish
- Wężymord czarny korzeń, Czarne korzonki, Skorzonera
- Portuguese
- Escorcioneira
- Romanian
- Scorțoneră
- Russian
- Козелец испанский, Чёрный корень
- Swedish
- Svartrot, Fattigmans sparis, Fattigmanssparis
- Turkish
- Sakız otu
- vls
- Schosneere
Synonyms
- Pseudopodospermum glastifolium (Willd.) Vasjukov & Saksonov
- Scorzonera dentata Kit.
- Scorzonera denticulata Lam.
- Scorzonera edulis Moench
- Scorzonera fehriana Emmert & Segnitz
- Scorzonera glastifolia Willd.
- Scorzonera hispanica L.
- Scorzonera hispanica subsp. glastifolia (Willd.) Arcang.
- Scorzonera hispanica subsp. strictiformis (Domin) Soó
- Scorzonera hispanica var. angustifolia Neilr.
- Scorzonera hispanica var. intermedia Rochel
- Scorzonera hispanica var. latifolia Schur
- Scorzonera hispanica var. latifolia W.D.J.Koch
- Scorzonera hispanica var. latifolia Neilr.
- Scorzonera hispanica var. sinuata Wallr.
- Scorzonera hispanica var. sinuatodentata Schur
- Scorzonera latibracteata Sennen & Elias
- Scorzonera montana Mutel
- Scorzonera sativa Gaterau
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May (from 67 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: carnifex, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Thierry Arbault, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Thierry Arbault, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Sean Hartnett, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Oleksandr Shynder, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: ahabo, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.