Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Cyanus segetum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea cyanus
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-24-002:
Centaurea cyanus FAMILY Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Centaurea cyanus
COMMON NAME:
Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower
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JK Marlow jkm150327_926
March Greenville County SC
Leaves linear, mostly entire, 2-5" long, white-hairy when young, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Gill Newberry gn04_c_c_side_view
April
The involucral bracts have a narrow, dark, fringed margin, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Centaurea
Gill Newberry gn04_c_flower_white
April
Outer florets have large bilaterally symmetric corollas simulating ray flwrs, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Gill Newberry gn04_centauea_cropped
April
Flowers discoid, perfect, or the outer simulating ligules and sterile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
JK Marlow jkm0405za_01
May Greenville County SC
Field
Marginal florets enlarged, bell-shaped, with sharply pointed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Cyanus segetum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea cyanus
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-24-002:
Centaurea cyanus
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Centaurea cyanus