Taxon: Centaurea ×moncktonii C. E. Britton

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:

CO(as Centaurea pratensis)*, ID(as Centaurea pratensis)*, OR(as Centaurea pratensis)*, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• hybrid knapweed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• meadow knapweed   (Source: State Noxweed Seed [as C. jacea ×: C. nigra]) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide State Noxweed Seed, as C. jacea ×: C. nigra)
  

More:

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Distributional range:

      Native:

• EUROPE
  Europe [possible wherever both parents are present]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Ochsmann, J. 2001. Knapweeds (Centaurea L. and some related genera) in North America. In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages. (Centaurea Pages) http://www.ochsmann.info/centaurea/centaurea–America.htm.
• 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) [= C. jacea ×: C. nigra].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Centaurea x moncktonii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Centaurea x moncktonii. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Centaurea pratensis auct. N. Amer.
  

Check other databases for Centaurea ×moncktonii C. E. Britton:

• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?432926 (09 February 2010)

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