Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 1296 (1763)
Rank: species
See: ► Cnicus benedictus L.

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Common names

U.S. name: Blessed thistle

English name: blessed thistle

French name: chardon bénit

Italian name: Cardo benedetto

German name: Bitterdistel

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:
= Cnicus benedictus L.
= Cirsium pugnax Sommier & Levier

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Centaurea
Species:

Page counter: 323 ( AVG: 222.31 / 88.078 )

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Centaurea benedicta

Centaurea benedicta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Civico Orto Botanico., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea benedicta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea benedicta
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Centaurea benedicta

Centaurea benedicta
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Centaurea benedicta

Centaurea benedicta
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 560.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, MD, MS, NC, NY, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI), CAN (NB, NS, ON)

Distributional map for Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.
Map for Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Centaurea besseriana DC. [188]
2) Centaurea biebersteinii DC. [174]
3) Centaurea calcitrapa L. [685]
4) Centaurea debeauxii Gren. & Godr. ssp. thuillieri Dostál [148]
5) Centaurea dubia Suter ssp. vochinensis (Bernh. ex Rchb.) Hayek [156]
6) Centaurea maculosa auct. non Lam. [153]
7) Centaurea muricata L. [142]
8) Centaurea paniculata L. [1008]
9) Centaurea scabiosa L. [3548]
10) Centaurea uniflora Turra [2489]

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