Centaurea scabiosa Linnaeus (Q3002)

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Centaurea scabiosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea
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Centaurea scabiosa Linnaeus
Centaurea scabiosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea

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    taxon/id/Centaurea scabiosa Linnaeus
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    Centaurea scabiosa Linnaeus
    Centaurea scabiosa
    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
    centaurée scabieuse (French)
    greater knapweed (English)
    rough knapweed (English)
    scabious knapweed (English)
    great starthistle (English)
    greater centaurea (English)
    hardheads (English)
    Greater knapweed (English)
    hardheads (English)
    centaurée scabieuse (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    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/
    1 reference
    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    1 reference
    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.
    Newfoundland, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Europe
    Flowering summer (Jun–Sep).
    disturbed sites
    pastures
    cultivation
    all areas
    50–1800 m
    Stems 1–several, branches ascending, glabrous to ± hirsute.
    Leaves minutely hispid, resin-gland-dotted;
    basal and proximal cauline petiolate, blades 10–25 cm, margins usually 1–2-pinnately divided into linear or oblong segments;
    mid and distal cauline smaller, entire or once dissected.
    Heads borne singly or few in open cymiform arrays, pedunculate.
    Involucres ovoid to hemispheric, becoming campanulate, 15–25 mm.
    Phyllaries: bodies dark green, ovate (outer) to oblong-lanceolate (inner), glabrous or finely arachnoid, margins and erect appendages black, ± fringed distally with slender teeth, inner phyllaries with brownish scarious, expanded, erose dissected appendages.
    corollas reddish purple (white), those of sterile florets 35–40 mm, often conspicuously enlarged, those of fertile florets 20–25 mm.
    Cypselae brown, 4.5–5 mm, puberulent;
    pappi of many unequal stiff bristles, white, 4–5 mm. 2n = 20 (Russia), 40.