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Scientific Name: | Knautia arvensis |
Common Name: | field scabious |
Family Name: | Caprifoliaceae |
Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Open, Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Oval - horizontal |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | n/a |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Basal, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Pinnately lobed |
Flowers: | Umbel, Blue, Violet, Purple, Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Achene, Green, Brown, Jul-Aug, (Persistent) |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves opposite, most oblanceolate, 5-25cm long x 2-10cm wide (decreasing up the stem), margin variable lobing or dentate; spikes are head-like, 1.5-4cm wide, violet to blue to pinkish-purple, penduncle long and glabrous, achenes 4-6mm long, tomentose. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Knautia%20arvensis' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> |