Taxon: Centaurea montana L.

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Common names:

• mountain cornflower   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• mountain knapweed   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• mountain-bluet   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• perennial cornflower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• centaurée des montagnes   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• Berg-Flockenblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• bergklint   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland [s.]; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia
  Southeastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Italy; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Sweden
  East Europe: Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part [n.w.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Utah

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Netherlands; Poland

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). [= Cyanus montana (L.) Hill].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Ochsmann, J. 2001. Knapweeds (Centaurea L. and some related genera) in North America. In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Centaurea montana.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Centaurea montana var. alba hort.
  
• (≡) Cyanus montanus (L.) Hill
  

Check other web resources for Centaurea montana L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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