Centaurea ×moncktonii C. E. Britton (Q3004)

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Centaurea ×moncktonii is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea
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Centaurea ×moncktonii C. E. Britton
Centaurea ×moncktonii is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Centaurea

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    taxon/id/Centaurea ×moncktonii C.E. Britton
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    Centaurea ×moncktonii C.E. Britton
    Centaurea ×moncktonii
    C.E. Britton
    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.
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    Centaurea ×moncktonii
    centaurée des prés (French)
    centaurée de Thuillier (French)
    meadow knapweed (English)
    protean knapweed (English)
    Meadow or protean knapweed (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
    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. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1019&flora_id=1
    1 reference
    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 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 spring–fall (May–Nov).
    roadsides
    riverbanks
    pastures
    meadows
    forest openings
    waste areas
    Stems 1–few, erect or ascending, openly branched distally, villous to scabrous with septate hairs and loosely tomentose, ± glabrate.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline petiolate, blades oblanceolate or elliptic, 5–25 cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate to irregularly pinnately lobed;
    distal cauline sessile, not decurrent, blades linear to lanceolate, gradually smaller, entire or dentate.
    Heads usually radiant (rarely discoid), in few-headed corymbiform arrays, borne on leafy-bracted peduncles.
    Involucres ovoid to campanulate or hemispheric, 15–18 mm, usually ± as wide as high.
    Principal phyllaries: bodies lanceolate to ovate, loosely tomentose or glabrous, usually concealed by expanded appendages, appendages erect, overlapping, light to dark-brown, flat or ± concave, margins varying from coarsely dentate to pectinately dissected into ± wiry lobes.
    Inner phyllaries: tips truncate, irregularly dentate or lobed.
    Florets 40–100+, all fertile or the peripheral sterile;
    corollas purple (rarely white), those of sterile florets ± expanded and exceeding corollas of fertile florets, those of fertile florets 15–18 mm.
    Cypselae tan, 2.5–3 mm, finely hairy;
    pappi 0 or of many unequal, sometimes caducous bristles 0.5–1 mm. 2n = 22 (England), 44.