Taxon: Centaurea cyanus L.
Genus: Centaurea
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 9817
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:911. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Apr-2000
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6). Accessions:
6 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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:
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NC°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Iran; Iraq; Turkey
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy - Sicily
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
- Bailey, L. H.
1949. Manual of cultivated plants, revised ed. (Bailey)
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Demilly, D. et al.
1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Ochsmann, J.
2001. Knapweeds (Centaurea L. and some related genera) in North America.
In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages. (Centaurea Pages)
- Parsa, A.
1943–1952. Flore de l'Iran. (F IranPars)
- Radford, A. E. et al., eds.
1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
- 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)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Centaurea cyanus L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
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Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for
Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- 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.
Images:
- Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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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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?9817 (09 February 2010)
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