Centaurea triumfettii

Felt knapweed ( triumfettii cyanus )

The Felt knapweed ( triumfettii cyanus ), also called non-ferrous knapweed, a flowering plant in the genus Centaurea from the Aster family is (Asteraceae). The specific epithet refers to the Italian physician and botanist Giovanni Battista Triumfetti.

The determination of this species is difficult, as it tends to quickly hybridizations ( hybridizations ). This creates difficult to distinguish small species. Occasionally they can be found as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks.

Description

The Felt knapweed is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the heights of growth of 5 to 60 centimeters. The rhizome is covered with short creeping and whitish. The stalk is leafy ascending and easy.

Their leaves are undivided and narrowly lanceolate, and both sides graufilzig. The upper leaves are significantly short decurrent. They sit on short petioles.

The species flowers from May to July. The single, terminal, short -stalked baskets consist of tubular flowers, blue ray flowers and purple to bright purple colored disc florets. In contrast to the Mountain Knapweed the fringes of the bracts are usually bright and almost twice as long as the width of the brownish Hüllblattrandes. The Hüllschuppen are green, often flushed at the top. The appendages of the middle Hüllschuppen are dark brown, black or white. They are regularly fringed comb-like.

Occurrence

The Felt knapweed is widespread in southern and central Europe. In Germany it is only a few places in southern Germany and the Alpine region from a course. In Austria it is scattered in front in the southern and eastern states.

They inhabited dry grassland, hems and sparse forests. It is light and warmth and comes from the level to the subalpine area in front.

System

The Felt knapweed, together with the cornflower and the Centaurea Montana recently assigned to the genus cyanus ( cyanus triumfettii ( All. ) Á Löve & D. Löve, Syn. Centaurea triumfetti space. ).