Abstract
Carthamus tinctorius L, also known as safflower, is an important oil crop planted worldwide. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome was reported in this study using the PacBio Sequel Platform. The cp genome with a total size of 152,963 bp consisted of two inverted repeats (25,128 bp) separated by a large single-copy region (84,124 bp) and a small single-copy region (18,583 bp). Further annotation revealed the cp genome contains 112 genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 29 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. The information of the cp genome will be useful for investigation of evolution and molecular breeding of safflower in the future.