Centaurea nigrescens Willd.
Detail
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Botanical Name
- Centaurea nigrescens Willd.
- Common Name
- Tyrol Knapweed
- Synonym(s)
- Centaurea dubia Suter; Centaurea vochinensis Bernhardi ex Reichenbach
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Centaurea nigrescens Willd.
- Comments
- Habitat
- Fields, pastures, roadsides, and clearings. Infrequent, mountains and Piedmont; rare in the Coastal Plain. This knapweed is a locally abundant and very aggressive weed in northern Virginia. It is now spreading rapidly and becoming more frequent in the central Piedmont and elsewhere.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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