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Brown Knapweed

Centaurea jacea

Photo by RiekoS
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Field Notes

Description:

Centaurea jacea is a species of herbaceous perennial plants in the genus Centaurea native to dry meadows and open woodland throughout Europe. It grows to 10–80 cm tall, and flowers mainly from June to September. - from Wikipedia

Notes:

Wild flower. I think this is Aster family, but I am not sure.

Species ID Suggestions

Brown Knapweed

Centaurea jacea

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Comments (2)
Jopy
I asked myself the same question, maybe because of brown calyx :) in Croatian is meadow knapweed...
RiekoS
Thank you so much Jopy. I added ID. I don't know why it is called "brown" because the flowers are lavender color.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2013

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