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Wednesday 2 March 2016

Centaurea benedicta (L.) L. - Cyprus

The native range of this species is Europe to Xinjiang. It is an annual and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Centaure is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich. In the western United States, yellow starthistles are an invasive species. Around the year 1850, seeds from the plant had arrived to the state of California. It is believed that those seeds came from South America.

Photos Geri 28/2/2015 by George Konstantinou




















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