Biology:Centaurea bella

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Short description: Species of flowering plants in the sage family Lamiaceae

Centaurea bella
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Flowers of Centaurea bella
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The gray-green to silvery tomentose leaves of Centaurea bella
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Centaureinae
Genus: Centaurea
Species:
C. bella
Binomial name
Centaurea bella
Trautv. 1866 [1]
Synonyms
  • Psephellus bellus [2]

Centaurea bella is a species of Centaurea found in Anatolia and Transcaucasia.[3] It is an evergreen plant, with gray-green to silvery imparipinnate leaves showing elliptic to ovate leaflets. It is used in gardening because the creeping stems can root in contact to the ground, and the plant grows slowly into a dense cover.[4] The flowers are purplish pink and bloom from March to June.

References

  1. Centaurea bella Trautv. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. x. (1866) 394.
  2. Psephellus bellus (Trautv.) Wagenitz Willdenowia (2000) 30(1): 36.
  3. Wagenitz, Gerhard; Hellwig, Frank H.. "The genus Psephellus Cass. (Compositae, Cardueae) revisited with a broadened concept". Willdenowia (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)) 30 (1): 29–44. doi:10.3372/wi.30.30102. 
  4. Filippi, Olivier (2007). Pour un jardin sans arrosage (For a garden without irrigation). Arles: Actes Sud. p. 207. ISBN 978-2-7427-6730-4. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15602583 entry