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Centaurea
Centaurea (/ˌsɛntɔːˈriːə/) is a genus of between 350 and 600 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich. In the western United States, yellow starthistles are an invasive species. Around the year 1850, seeds from the plant had arrived to the state of California. It is believed that those...
10 branches of this group, most-observed first
Common Knapweed Complex
sectionPhrygia
Centaurea
sectionCentaurea
Calcitrapa
sectionCalcitrapa
Melanoloma
sectionMelanoloma
Cnicus
sectionCnicus
Grossheimia
sectionGrossheimia
Akamantis
sectionAkamantis
Ammocyanus
sectionAmmocyanus
Hierapolitanae
sectionHierapolitanae
Centaurea elazigensis
speciesCentaurea elazigensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.80
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.79
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.109
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.79
Herbarius
1485 · p.80
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.81
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.77
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.107
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.107
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.102
Garden of Health
1507 · p.87
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.164
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Centaurea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 971683.