Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Centaurea melitensis L.


ASTERACEAE Family selection - Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Centaurea melitensis L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 917 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Maltese star-thistle
en English name: cockspur thistle
English name: Maltese centaury
French name: croix de Malte
Italian name: Fiordaliso maltese
German name: Malteser Flockenblume

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual, Biennial
 

Synonyms:



TAXONOMY

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


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Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
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: 559.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Kops, Jan; Eeden, F. W. van; Vuyck, L. - Flora Batava. 24. Deel. (1915) - 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 melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Spikey seed capsule at Omaopio, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri., GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Flowering habit at Omaopio, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri., GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri, GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri., GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Flowers at Omaopio, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Kula Hwy, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri, GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri, GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri., GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Flowers at Omaopio, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Flowers at Omaopio, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Habit at Kula Hwy, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Centaurea melitensis
Centaurea melitensis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, GA, HI, IN, MA, MO, NJ, NM, NV, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, WA, WI), CAN (BC)

Distributional map for Centaurea melitensis L.
Map for Centaurea melitensis 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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