Taxon: Centaurea stoebe L.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis (no accessions)
• Centaurea stoebe subsp. serbica (no accessions)
• Centaurea stoebe subsp. stoebe (no accessions)

Common names:

• spotted knapweed   (Source: Ochsmann 2001) – English
  
• spotted knapweed   (Source: Proc Knapweed Symp [as Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos]) – English   [Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• centaurée maculée ou tachetée   (Source: F NAmer [as Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos]) – French   [Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• gefleckte Flockenblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• gewöhnliche Rispen-Flockenblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• kleinköpfige Rispen-Flockenblume   (Source: Zander ed16 [as Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos]) – German   [Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• centáurea-manchada   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as C. maculosa]) – Portuguese (Brazil)   [Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• sandklint   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [n.]; Italy [n.]; Macedonia; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe [widely natzd. elsewhere]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

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).
• 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).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Ochsmann, J. 2000. Morphologische und molekularsystematische Untersuchungen an der Centaurea stoebe L.-Gruppe (Asteraceae-Cardueae) in Europa. Diss. Bot. 324:1–242.
• Ochsmann, J. 2001. The Centaurea stoebe L. group in Europe. In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages.
• Ochsmann, J. 2001. On the taxonomy of spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L.). Pp. 33–41 in: Smith, L., ed., Proceedings of the First International Knapweed Symposium of the Twenty-first Century, 15-16 March 2001, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Centaurea stoebe.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Centaurea stoebe.

Synonyms:

• Centaurea affinis subsp. serbica Prodán [≡ Centaurea stoebe subsp. serbica]
  
• Centaurea australis Pančić ex A. Kern. [≡ Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• Centaurea biebersteinii DC. [= Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• Centaurea maculosa Lam. [= Centaurea stoebe subsp. stoebe]
  
• Centaurea maculosa subsp. micranthos Gugler [= Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  
• Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos (Gugler) Hayek [= Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis]
  

Check other web resources for Centaurea stoebe L.:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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