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Centaurea axillaris Willd.

Asteraceae · Czechoslovakia, Germany +11

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About the genus · Centaurea

Centaurea 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.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Centaurea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeCzechoslovakia, Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Centaurea 67 in the reference

Centaurea achtarovii Asteraceae Centaurea akamantis Centaurea akamantis Akamas Centaury Photo: CC BY, Ruslan SalimgareevCentaurea alba Centaurea alba Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Teo AlbertCentaurea ambigua Centaurea ambigua Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozCentaurea aplolepa Centaurea aplolepa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrea MologniCentaurea aspera Centaurea aspera Rough star-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCentaurea atropurpurea Centaurea atropurpurea Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Yves BasCentaurea babylonica Centaurea babylonica Syrian knapweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Serdar ÖlezCentaurea barrasii Centaurea barrasii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCentaurea benedicta Centaurea benedicta Blessed thistle Photo: CC BY, Orzigul AnvarovaCentaurea calcitrapa Centaurea calcitrapa Red star-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCentaurea calocephala Centaurea calocephala Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Jeff Clark all 68 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Centaurea montana subsp. axillaris; Centaurea cana; Centaurea serebrowskyi; Centaurea ledebourii; Cyanus axillaris and 8 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

Under another author Centaurea montana proles axillaris (Willd.) Rouy is an older name of this species, not Centaurea montana, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Willd.
Native to
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Albania +10
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Centaurea axillaris Willd. (plant_name_id 3050886), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 189981-1, POWO 189981-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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