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Catananche caerulea - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 7/2015 © Julia Roeser

Catananche caerulea - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Catananche caerulea - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 7/2015 © Julia Roeser

Catananche caerulea - Flowerhead, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowerhead, side view; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Catananche caerulea - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 7/2015 © Julia Roeser

Catananche caerulea - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Catananche caerulea - Basal foliage - Click to enlarge!

Basal foliage; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 7/2015 © Julia Roeser

Catananche caerulea - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1742
Date of entry: 09.07.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Blue Cupidone

German: Blaue Rasselblume

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Asterales (229)

        Family: Asteraceae (228)(family description)

          Genus: Catananche (1)

            Epithet: caerulea L. (2)

caerulea => sky-blue

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue, violet

External links

Check for Catananche caerulea at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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