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3772

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: Europe

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare in NC

Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Pinkish-purple
Rays: Absent
Bisexual, fertile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Centaurea nigra FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea nigra FAMILY Asteraceae__

COMMON NAME:
Black Knapweed, Spanish-buttons

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image of Centaurea nigra, Black Knapweed, Spanish-buttons

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ceni2_001_lvd

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir