Scorzonera is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.

[5] Scorzonera is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the nutmeg, a species of moth.

[6] Flavonoids found in Scorzonera include apigenin, kaempferol, luteolin, and quercetin.

[7] Other secondary metabolites reported from the genus include caffeoylquinic acids, coumarins, lignans, stilbenoids, and triterpenoids.

They were named the tyrolobibenzyls after Tyrol in the eastern Alps, where the plant was collected.