Title:
Meadow Salsify (Tragopogon pratensis), with yellow flowers, single flower head, seed clock.
Caption:
Meadow Salsify (Tragopogon pratensis).. . French botanist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard was born around 1742 at Aubepierre-en-Barrois (Haute Marne) and died on 26 September 1793 in Paris. He studied at Angers, and later illustrated and published a number of botanical and mycological works on French flora. He studied art and engraving under Francois Martinet, the celebrated artist of many of Buffon's natural history books.