Species · Asteraceae

Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius. Asteraceae, genus Carthamus. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

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Rank
species
Names
80 in 30 languages
Numbers
3 (3 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.

English: Dyer's-saffron, False Saffron, Safflower.

In other languages

  • Arabic: عصفر, قرطم مصبوغ
  • Belarusian: Сафлор фарбавальны
  • Bengali: কুসুম ফুল
  • Chinese: hong hua, hong lan hua, 紅花
  • Czech: světlice barvířská
  • Danish: Saflor
  • Dutch: Saffloer
  • Finnish: värisaflori
  • French: Carthame des teinturiers, Carthame des teinturiers, Centaurée des teinturiers, Safran bâtard, safran bâtard, Safran des teinturiers, safranon, safre
  • German: Echter Saflor, falscher Safran, Färber-Saflor, Färberdistel, Färbersaflor, Öldistel, Saflor
  • Hungarian: kerti pórsáfrány
  • Italian: cartamo, Cartamo o zafferanone, zaffrone
  • Japanese: beni-bana, セイヨウベニバナ, ベニバナ, 呉藍, 末摘花
  • Korean: iskkot, 잇꽃
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): fargetistel, saflortistel, safrantistel
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): safrantistel, fargetistel, saflortistel
  • Polish: Krokosz barwierski
  • Portuguese: açaflor, açafrão-agreste, açafrão-bastardo, açafrão-bravo, açafroa, açafrol, cártamo, falso-açafrão
  • Russian: Сафлор красильный
  • Slovak: požlt farbiarsky
  • Spanish: alazor, Azafrán, azafrán bastardo, cártamo, chamam açaflor, falso-azafrán
  • Swahili: alizeti ya miba, kartamu
  • Swedish: Färgtistel, safflor
  • Thai: คำฝอย
  • Turkish: Yalanci safran
  • Welsh: Cochlys, Safflwr
  • khm: ស្មៅជម្ពូ
  • mlt: Għosfor
  • nor: safrantistel

Names with no language recorded: beni-bana, Färber-Saflor (DE); Safflower (EN); Azafran bastardo (ES), hong hua, hong lan hua, iskkot, safflower, Šafranika / Шафраника, 잇꽃.

Where it is recorded

Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

Growth stages

  • Initial: about 20 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted April, California, USA)
  • Crop development: about 35 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted April, California, USA)
  • Mid-season: about 45 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted April, California, USA)
  • Late season: about 25 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted April, California, USA)

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Initial

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.35published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Mid-season

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)1 to 1.15published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Late season

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)0.25published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.