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Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle, is a member of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin region. The plant is also known as golden starthistle, yellow cockspur and St. Barnaby's thistle (or Barnaby thistle) The plant is a thorny winter annual species in the knapweed genus.
View Wikipedia Record: Centaurea solstitialis

Infraspecies

Centaurea pyracantha var. pyracantha
Centaurea pyracantha var. syriaca
Centaurea solstitialis carneola
Centaurea solstitialis erythracantha
Centaurea solstitialis lappacea
Centaurea solstitialis mitis
Centaurea solstitialis pyracantha
Centaurea solstitialis schouwii
Centaurea solstitialis solstitialis
Centaurea solstitialis var. intermedia
Centaurea solstitialis var. mitis

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Centaurea solstitialis

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  There is a report that the plant causes brain lesions and a nervous syndrome called 'chewing disease' in horses;
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
View Plants For A Future Record : Centaurea solstitialis

Protected Areas

Predators

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
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), MUTLU KART Gür AND HAKAN Gür, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(864):183–194 (2010)
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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