Meaning & use
goatsbeard
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a plant with a long, feathery, beard-like seed head or flower cluster, found in several unrelated genera including Tragopogon and Aruncus
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The goatsbeard's fluffy seed head looked like a giant dandelion puff.
Goatsbeard grows tall white flower plumes along shaded woodland paths in early summer.
A note on using this word
The name is applied to more than one unrelated plant, so it's worth checking the Latin genus (such as Tragopogon or Aruncus) if you need to identify a specific species.
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