Centaurea calcitrapa L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Centaurea calcitrapa L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 917 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Red star-thistle

English name: purple cockspur

English name: purple star thistle

French name: chausse-trape

Italian name: Fiordaliso stellato

German name: Stern-Flockenblume

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual, Biennial, Perennial

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TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 684 ( AVG: 221.84 / 290.709 )

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Centaurea calcitrapa

Centaurea calcitrapa
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Toscolano Maderno, Giardino Botanico Sperimentale , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea calcitrapa

Centaurea calcitrapa
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Regione Languedoc-Roussillon, Dipartimento dell'Hérault, città di Montpellier, presso un campo sportivo. , Francia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea calcitrapa
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Centaurea calcitrapa

Centaurea calcitrapa
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Centaurea calcitrapa

Centaurea calcitrapa
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Centaurea calcitrapa

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, DC, IA, IL, IN, MD, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, UT, VA, WA), CAN (ON)

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(*) 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 cyanus L. [1329]
2) Centaurea debeauxii Gren. & Godr. ssp. thuillieri Dostál [148]
3) Centaurea diffusa Lam. [794]
4) Centaurea jacea L. [3612]
5) Centaurea maculosa auct. non Lam. [153]
6) Centaurea moschata L. [174]
7) Centaurea nigra L. var. radiata DC. [135]
8) Centaurea pratensis Thuill., nom. illeg., non Salisb. [150]
9) Centaurea squarrosa Willd. [172]
10) Centaurea virgata Lam. [359]

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