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Centaurea cephalariifolia (Greater Knapweed)

Synonyms: Centaurea scabiosa; Centaurea scabiosa cephalariifolia; Centaurea scabiosa var. cephalariifolia (homotypic); Colymbada cephalariifolia

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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