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Widow flowers

Knautia

Also called Scabious

Widow flowers
Photo: Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)

About

Knautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. It includes 55 species native to Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Siberia. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (Scabiosa). The name Knautia comes from the 17th-century German botanists, Drs. Christoph and Christian Knaut.

Other Knautia plants

Field scabiosa · Hungarian Widow Flower · Macedonian Scabious

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Knautia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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