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Centaurea triumfettii
Squarrose knapweed is a hardy herbaceous perennial in the daisy family, growing 30 to 60 cm tall with bright purple and blue thistle-like flowers from May to August. It is a wild-meadow plant that does best in open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Centaurea triumfettii, the squarrose knapweed, is a species of plant belonging to the genus Centaurea of the family Asteraceae.
This species occurs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey Turkmenistan and United States.
Centaurea acaulis · Akamas centaury · Centaurea alba · Centaurea ammocyanus · Rough star-thistle · Centaurea atropurpurea · Centaurea behen · Blessed Thistle · Red star-thistle · Karl-Henrikh's Centaury · Dusty miller · Centaurea collina
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Centaurea triumfettii 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.
