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Centaurea macrocephala (bighead knapweed)

Synonyms: Grossheimia macrocephala (homotypic); Phaeopappus macrocephalus; Plumosipappus macrocephalus

Wikipedia Abstract

Centaurea macrocephala, the bighead knapweed, giant knapweed, or Armenian basket flower, is a species of Centaurea found in Caucasus.
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Infraspecies

Grossheimia macrocephala var. macrocephala

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham 12696 England, United Kingdom

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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