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Centaurea hyalolepis
Eastern Star Thistle (Centaurea hyalolepis) is an annual or biennial thistle-like plant in the daisy family, native to the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a wild plant of dry open ground rather than a common garden subject, and it grows best in full sun with well-drained soil.
Centaurea hyalolepis is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Greece, Western Asia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Centaurea hyalolepis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
