Species,"Carthamus tinctorius" "Sample Location","the phytotron at the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chengdu, China." "Sample Part",flowers "Sequencing platform",BGISEQ-500 "Sequencing data","A total of 99.16 Gb data " "Assembly software","Trinity and Velvet" "Assembly result","129,544 unigenes were generated with a total length, mean length, and N50 of 170,757,704 bp, 1,318 bp, and 2,090 bp, respectively." "Annotation Method","NT, NR, COG, KEGG, GO, SwissProt"