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Plant · P-716
Safflower
Carthamus tinctorius
An annual oilseed crop with spiny thistle-like foliage and orange-yellow flower heads used historically as a dye and now mainly for its edible seed oil. Wants full sun and tolerates poor dry ground once established thanks to a deep taproot reaching a couple of metres down. Seed and pressed meal both have livestock feed value though high fiber limits how much monogastric animals can be fed.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 2–11
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 5.4–8.2
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 2–3.3 ft
- Mature spread
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