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Knapweed

Centaurea nervosa

Photo by sttweets
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Habitat:

Grassland

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Centaurea

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Comments (10)
sttweets
@Toriroo, @AshishNimkar, thanks for all your help. In the end the 'artistic' shallow depth of field photography made it hard te check details, but I'm rather sure it has to be knapweed.
Ashish
Jut checked...Genus website...You will find there..Centaurea pullata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea
sttweets
@AshishNimkar I find that hard to believe since the Centaurea cyanus should be really blue like: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/5525729. I'll do some more research, thanks!
sttweets
Anyone, could this be Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi). The other leafs look similar.
sttweets
@Toriroo, it's not Scabiosa since that has kind of 'heart' shaped leave where this one had long and thin leaves. I'll keep on looking. Thanks anyway. Sebastiaan

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