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:
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S.Aust.: SL. Native to the Mediterranean region and south-western Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Flower Oct. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
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