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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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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centaurea nigra FAMILY Asteraceae__

COMMON NAME:
Black Knapweed, Spanish-buttons

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