Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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4135

Forb
Annual/Biennial

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Look for it in waste areas near wool-combing mill, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Alternate (basal and lower stem leaves often absent at anthesis)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent
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 (5/21/15):
 Centaurea melitensis   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Centaurea melitensis   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Centaurea melitensis

 

COMMON NAME:
 Maltese Star-thistle

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image of Centaurea melitensis

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ceme2_001_lvd