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Cephalaria (Greek for head, alluding to the capitate flower-clusters). Dipsaceae. Coarse annual or perennial herbs planted to some extent in herbaries.
Much like Dipsacus, but the heads less spiny and mostly smaller: heads terminal, ovoid or globular, bearing many 4-parted yellowish, whitish or bluish florets; stamens 4, perfect; style filiform: fr. a 4-8- ribbed achene, the calyx-border often remaining on its summit.—About 30 species in the Medit. region, N. and S. Afr. and W. Asia; also in Abyssinia. Lvs. entire, dentate, or lobed. They are not much planted in Amer., but they make striking subjects for summer bloom, and the long sts. make them useful for cut-fls. The bloom is something like that of scabiosa. Of simple cult.; grown readily from seeds.
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==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==