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Family: Asteraceae
Crupina vulgaris

Citation: Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 12:68 (1818).

Synonymy: Centaurea crupina L., Sp. Pl. 909 (1753); Serratula crupina (L.) Villars, Hist. Pl. Dauph. 3:38 (1789).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual to 30 cm high; stem unbranched below the inflorescence, leafy, ribbed, pubescent; basal leaves spathulate to oblanceolate, very shallowly serrate, 2-3 cm long, c. 1 cm wide, scabrous, with hispid margins, soon withering; cauline leaves pinnatisect with narrowly linear segments, to 5 cm long, to 2 cm wide, decreasing in size up the stem, hispid on the margins.

Capitula solitary or in corymbs of 2-4 on leafless peduncles to 2 cm long or sessile; involucre cylindrical, 1.5-2 cm long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, unarmed, glandular, c. 4-serlate; florets 3-8; corollas c. 12 mm long, exceeding the involucre, purple.

Achenes 1-3, almost cylindrical, 3-4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm diam., dense sericeous, brown; pappus bristles numerous, stiff and regularly radiating, 2-8 mm long, black.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   Native to the Mediterranean region and south-western Asia.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Flower Oct. — Nov.


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