Centaurea americana
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Read about Centaurea americana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Centaurea americana, Nutt. (Plectocephalus americanus, Don). Basket Flower. Fig. 873. Hardy annual, nearly smooth: sts. stout, simple or sometimes a little branched, 2-5 ft., thickened under the naked head: lvs. mostly entire, oblong - lance- shaped, mucronate: involucre ½-1½ in. diam., its bracts all with fringed scarious appendages: fls. rose or flesh-colored, sometimes purplish; disk 1-3 in. diam.; narrow lobes of the ray-fls. often 1 in. long. Mo. and Ark. to La. and Mex. F.S. 4:327. S.H. 2:223. A.F. 16: 1644 (alba). Gng. 9:341 (alba). —Very attractive. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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