Centaurea benedicta (Linnaeus) Linnaeus (Q2992)
Centaurea benedicta is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea
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Centaurea benedicta (Linnaeus) Linnaeus
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Centaurea benedicta is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea
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taxon/id/Centaurea benedicta (Linnaeus) Linnaeus
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Centaurea benedicta (Linnaeus) Linnaeus
Centaurea benedicta
(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
accepted
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CA-BC
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Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
CA-ON
present
introduced
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Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
CA-NB
present
introduced
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Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
CA-NS
present
introduced
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Roland, A.E. & E.C. Smith. 1969. The Flora of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, N.S. [Reprinted from Proc. N.S. Inst. Sci. 26]
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Stems often spreading or prostrate, usually branched throughout, usually reddish, ± loosely tomentose.
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Leaves mostly cauline, sessile and often short-decurrent or proximal tapering to winged petioles, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6–25 cm, margins coarsely dentate or pinnately lobed, lobes and teeth armed with short, weak spines, faces sparsely to densely hairy with jointed multicellular hairs and slender cobwebby hairs, resin-gland-dotted.
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Heads disciform, borne singly, sessile, each subtended by involucrelike cluster of leaflike bracts.
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Involucres ± spheric, 20–40 mm.
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Phyllaries in several series, tightly overlapping, outer ovate with tightly appressed bases and spreading spine tips, inner lanceolate, tipped by pinnately divided spines more than 5 mm.
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corollas yellow, those of sterile florets linear, 3-lobed, not exceeding disc corollas, very slender, those of disc-florets 19–24 mm.
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Cypselae cylindric, slightly curved, 8–11 mm, with 20 prominent ribs, tipped by a 10-dentate rim, glabrous, attachment scars lateral;
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pappi of 2 series of awns, outer 9–10 mm, smooth or ± roughened, inner 2–5 mm, roughened with short spreading hairs.
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tomentose
more or less loosely
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