Pronunciation: kar-THA-mus tink-TORE-ee-us
Common name: Safflower
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Habitat: Disturbed places, roadsides to 3000',
escape from cultivation as oil-seed crop, native
to Mediterranean
Blooming period: ???
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Carthamus
2) tinctorius