Taxon: Centaurea cyanus L.

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:

NC°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bachelor's-button   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• blaver   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• blue bottle   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• blue-poppy   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• bluebonnets   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• brushes   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• corn-pinks   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• cornflower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• hurtsickle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• thimbles   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• witch's-bells   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• shi che ju   (Source: F Taiwan ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• barbeau   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• bleuet   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• casse lunette   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• centaurée bleuet   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• Kornblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• vasiljok posevnoj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• vasiljok sinij   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• blåklint   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F USSR)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (for drying fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iraq [n.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China - Qinghai, Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan [n.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Greece - Crete; Romania
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Greenland
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Pichincha
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales

• 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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of cultivated plants, revised ed.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Ochsmann, J. 2001. Knapweeds (Centaurea L. and some related genera) in North America. In: Ochsmann, J., Welcome to the Centaurea pages.
• Parsa, A. 1943–1952. Flore de l'Iran.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• 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.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Centaurea cyanus.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Centaurea cyanus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cyanus segetum Hill
  

Check other web resources for Centaurea cyanus 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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
• 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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