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Centaurea jacea (Brown Knapweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Centaurea jacea (brown knapweed or brownray knapweed) is a species of herbaceous perennial plants in the genus Centaurea native to dry meadows and open woodland throughout Europe. It grows to 10–80 cm tall, and flowers mainly from June to September. In Britain, it is often found as a hybrid of black knapweed, Centaurea nigra. Unlike the black knapweed, the flower heads always look as if they are rayed, forming a more open star rather than a brush-like tuft.
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Infraspecies

Centaurea jacea angustifolia
Centaurea jacea banatica
Centaurea jacea forojulensis
Centaurea jacea forojuliensis
Centaurea jacea gaudinii (Attributes)
Centaurea jacea haynaldii
Centaurea jacea jacea
Centaurea jacea julica
Centaurea jacea substituta
Centaurea jacea var. rocheliana
Centaurea jacea vinyalsii
Centaurea jacea weldeniana

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
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Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[4]
Ramularia centaureae[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0