''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Caprifoliaceae The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species, in 33, to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America an ...

. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''

Scabiosa ''Scabiosa'' is a genus in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) of flowering plants. Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious, but some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in r ...

''). The name ''Knautia'' comes from the 17th-century German botanists, Drs. Christoph and

Christian Knaut Christian Knaut (August 16, 1656 – April 11, 1716) was a German physician, botanist and librarian born in Halle an der Saale. His older brother, Christoph Knaut (1638–1694) was also a physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the Unive ...

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Selected species

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Knautia arvensis ''Knautia arvensis'', commonly known as field scabious, is a herbaceous perennial species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Description It is a perennial plant that grows between . It prefers grassy places and dry ...

'' - Meadow widow flower, blue buttons, field scabious * ''

Knautia carinthiaca ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

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Knautia drymeia ''Knautia drymeia'', commonly known as the Hungarian widow flower, is a herbaceous perennial plant species in the family Caprifoliaceae, that grows in Central and Southeastern Europe. Taxonomy This species was first formally described by Aus ...

'' - Hungarian widow flower * ''

Knautia kitaibelii ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

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Knautia longifolia ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

'' - Long leaf widow flower * ''

Knautia macedonica ''Knautia macedonica'', the Macedonian scabious, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to Southeastern Europe - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, southeastern Romania and Kırklareli in Turkey. Growing to ...

'' - Macedonian scabious * ''

Knautia maxima ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

'' - Forest widow flower * ''

Knautia norica ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

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Knautia persicina ''Knautia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (''Scabiosa''). The name ''Knautia'' come ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q149310 Caprifoliaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus