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Centaurea scabiosa - Flowerhead, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowerhead, side view; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Developing flower head - Click to enlarge!

Developing flower head; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Upper and lower surfaces of leaves - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surfaces of leaves; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

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

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Centaurea scabiosa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 870
Date of entry: 09.07.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Greater Knapweed

German: Skabiosen-Flockenblume

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Asterales (229)

        Family: Asteraceae (228)(family description)

          Genus: Centaurea (15)

            Epithet: scabiosa L. (1)

scabiosa => covered with or having a scab

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet

External links

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