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Life form: |
| Perennial herb |
Stems: |
| Height 45-60 cm, usually unbranched, winged, sparsely hairy; rhizomes |
Leaves: |
| Alternate, greyish, entire, lanceolate |
Flowers: |
| Flowers up to 7.5cm wide, single flower-like capitula surrounded by involucral bracts; capitulum ray-florets dark blue (sometimes light red, purple or white), obliquely funnel-shaped, lobed tip; disk florets purple, tubular. Stamens 5 |
Flowering Period: |
| June |
Fruits: |
| Achene |
Habitat: |
| Meadows and forest edges near buildings |
Distribution: |
| Feral in southern and central Sweden. |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Centaurea, gets its name from the centaur, Chiron, who is said in mythology to have taught us the healing power of herbs.
montana,Latin mons, mountain.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
- The standard author abbreviation Hill is used to indicate John Hill (c. 1714 – 1775), an English author and botanist.
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