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Answer for the clue "Genus of Old World herbs with linear entire leaves and yellow or purple flower heads ", 10 letters:
tragopogon

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Tragopogon , also known as goatsbeard or salsify , is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family . It includes the vegetable known as salsify , as well as a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds . Salsifies ...

Usage examples of tragopogon.

And how the seeds of many pappous or downy flowers lock-up in sockets after a gomphosis or mortis-articulation, diffuse themselves circularly into branches of rare order, observable in Tragopogon or Goats-beard, conformable to the Spider's web, and the Radii in like manner telarely inter-woven.