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Centaurea aspera - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Parque Natural del Garraf, Barcelona, Spain; 8/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea aspera - Flower head, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower head, side view; Parque Natural del Garraf, Barcelona, Spain; 8/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea aspera - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Parque Natural del Garraf, Barcelona, Spain; 8/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea aspera - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Parque Natural del Garraf, Barcelona, Spain; 8/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1791
Date of entry: 10.09.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Asterales (224)

        Family: Asteraceae (223)(family description)

          Genus: Centaurea (15)

            Epithet: aspera subsp. stenophylla (Dufour) Nyman (5)

aspera => rough, sharp to the touch

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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