Centaurea jacea


Centaurea jacea
25 (80)cm, Brown Knapweed, perennial plant with scale-like tan to brown bracts beneath the light purple to rose flowers. The branches have egg shaped or lanceolate, undivided leaves. European native from dry fields, meadows and roadsides in Scandinavia, Atlantic and Central Europe, N Italy, W Russia and the Balkans. For full sun to partial shade, in any well drained soil. VI-IX.

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