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Taxon: Centaurea calcitrapa L.

Genus: Centaurea
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 316612
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:917. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 27-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
AZ*°, CA*, NM*, NV*°, OR*°, WA*°, WY°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

Common names:

  • purple star thistle   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  • red star thistle   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  • star thistle   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  • centaurée chausse-trape   (Source: Knapweeds NAmer) – French
  • Stern-Flockenblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  • centáurea-colirada   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • centáurea-estrela   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Czechoslovakia; Hungary; Switzerland
    East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Cape Verde
    Africa [s.]
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia
    New Zealand: New Zealand
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    United States
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Central America
    South America

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Ochsmann, J. 2001. Knapweeds (Centaurea L. and some related genera) in North America. In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages. (Centaurea Pages)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones. (F Tunis)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Check other databases for Centaurea calcitrapa L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316612 (09 September 2010)

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