Centaurea solstitialis Linnaeus (Q3003)

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

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    taxon/id/Centaurea solstitialis Linnaeus
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    Centaurea solstitialis Linnaeus
    Centaurea solstitialis
    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
    Centaurea solstitialis
    centaurée du solstice (French)
    yellow starthistle (English)
    Barnaby starthistle (English)
    St. Barnaby's thistle (English)
    Yellow or Barnaby star-thistle (English)
    St. Barnaby’s thistle (English)
    centauré du solstice (English)
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    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
    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    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/
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    s Europe
    Flowering mostly summer–autumn (Jun–Oct), sometimes year-round in frostfree coastal habitats.
    roadsides
    fields
    pastures
    woodlands
    Stems simple or often branched from base, forming rounded bushy plants, gray-tomentose.
    Leaves gray-tomentose and scabrous to short-bristly;
    basal and proximal cauline petiolate or tapered to base, usually absent at anthesis, blades 5–15 cm, margins pinnately lobed or dissected;
    cauline long-decurrent, blades linear to oblong, 1–10 cm, entire.
    Heads disciform, borne singly or in open leafy arrays, long-pedunculate.
    Involucres ovoid, 13–17 mm, loosely cobwebby-tomentose or becoming glabrous.
    Principal phyllaries: bodies pale green, ovate, appendages stramineous to brown, each with palmately radiating cluster of spines, and stout central spine 10–25 mm.
    Inner phyllaries: appendages scarious, obtuse or abruptly spine-tipped.
    corollas yellow, all ± equal, 13–20 mm;
    sterile florets slender, inconspicuous.
    Cypselae dimorphic, 2–3 mm, glabrous, outer dark-brown, without pappi, inner white or light-brown, mottled;
    pappi of many white, unequal bristles 2–4 mm, fine.