Family Asteraceae
Centaurea scabiosa L.
greater knapweed, hard-heads
Centaurea: ancient Greek plant-name, poetically associated with Chiron, the Centaur, but without wholly satisfactory explanation
scabiosa: Latin name meaning scurfy (Munz) and/or from the Latin scabies, "the itch," which the rough (scurfy) leaves might have been used to cure (Stearns and Jepson)
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