Greater Knapweed
Centaurea scabiosa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 53 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Greater knapweed
Formerly Acrocentron scabiosa, Colymbada scabiosa, Lopholoma scabiosa, Sagmen scabiosa
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 46 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, purple; Wikipedia magenta, purple
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Russian
- Василёк шероховатый, Василёк скабиозовый
- French
- Centaurée scabieuse, Centauree scabieuse, centaurée scabieuse
- German
- Skabiosen-Flockenblume, Scabiosenflockenblume, Skabiosenflockenblume
- Norwegian Bokmål
- fagerknoppurt
- Polish
- Chaber driakiewnik
- Czech
- chrpa čekánek
- Danish
- Stor knopurt, Stor Knopurt
- Dutch
- grote centaurie, Grote centaurie
- Italian
- Fiordaliso vedovino
- Lithuanian
- Didžiagalvė bajorė
- Finnish
- ketokaunokki
- Catalan
- Gratabous
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Centaurea scabiosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.