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Knapweed

Centaurea nervosa

Habitat:

Grassland

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10 Comments

sttweets
sttweets 12 years ago

@Toriroo, @AshishNimkar, thanks for all your help. In the end the 'artistic' shallow depth of field photography made it hard te check details, but I'm rather sure it has to be knapweed.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Jut checked...Genus website...You will find there..Centaurea pullata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea

sttweets
sttweets 12 years ago

@AshishNimkar I find that hard to believe since the Centaurea cyanus should be really blue like: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/552....

I'll do some more research, thanks!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Centaurea cyanus

sttweets
sttweets 12 years ago

Anyone, could this be Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi). The other leafs look similar.

SaskiaTerlouw
SaskiaTerlouw 13 years ago

Great color

sttweets
sttweets 13 years ago

@Toriroo, it's not Scabiosa since that has kind of 'heart' shaped leave where this one had long and thin leaves. I'll keep on looking.

Thanks anyway. Sebastiaan

Toriroo
Toriroo 13 years ago

Pretty photo!

sttweets
sttweets 13 years ago

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Toriroo
Toriroo 13 years ago

It might be Scabiosa

sttweets
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Staphorst, Overijssel, Netherlands

Spotted on Aug 26, 2010
Submitted on Mar 23, 2011

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