Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

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  Centaurea repens L. image
Photographer: S. Kelly Kearns           

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Family Asteraceae
Centaurea repens L.
Russian knapweed
Centaurea: ancient Greek plant-name, poetically associated with Chiron, the Centaur, but without wholly satisfactory explanation
repens: having creeping and rooting stems
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Status: Introduced - adventive; potentially invasive
Plant: perennial forb
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Synonyms 
Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.
Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd.

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