Tyrol Knapweed

Tyrol Knapweed

Taxobox
name = "Centaurea nigrescens"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Tyrol Thistle
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
tribus = Cynareae
genus = "Centaurea"
species = "C. nigrescens"
binomial = "Centaurea nigrescens"
binomial_authority = Willd.

Tyrol knapweed ("Centaurea nigrescens") is a perennial plant of the star thistle genus that grows natively in Central and South-Eastern Europe (from Southern Germany and Northern Italy to Romania and Bulgaria), but has also been introduced and is now a noxious weed in the Northern United States, Canada and Southern Australia. It has purple flowers and it flowers in the summer (June to September).


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