Centaurea Nervosa
''Centaurea nervosa'' is a species of '' Centaurea'' found in Italy in the North ( in the Alps ) where it is common, the Tuscan- Emilian where it is rare, Outside Italy in the Alps and in the French Alpine departments, in the cantons of Valais, Ticino and Graubünden of Switzerland, the provinces of Carinthia in Austria, in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovenia. References External links * * nervosa ''Nervosa'' is an album by the band Showbread. It was released on May 13, 2008, simultaneously with its companion album ''Anorexia''. Nervosa second in a two-CD collection entitled Anorexia Nervosa, which is an accompaniment to the short story '' ... Plants described in 1809 {{Cynareae-stub ...
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Centaurea
''Centaurea'' () is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich. In the western United States, yellow starthistles are an invasive species. Around the year 1850, seeds from the plant had arrived to the state of California. It is believed that those seeds came from South America. Common names Common names for this genus are centaury, centory, starthistles, knapweeds, centaureas and the more ambiguous "bluets"; a vernacular name used for these plants in parts of England is "loggerheads" (common knapweed). The ''Plectocephalus'' group – possibly a distinct genus – is known as basketflowers. "Cornflower" is used for a few species, but that term more often specifically means either '' C. cyanus'' (the annual cornflower) or ''Centaurea montana'' (the perennial c ...
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