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Centaurea benedicta

blessed thistle

Centaurea benedicta
Flowering time June-August
Habitat Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, also in eastern North America.
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Origin Introduced from Eurasia
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
C. calcitrapa, C. cyanus, C. diffusa, C. ×gerstlaueri, C. iberica, C. jacea, C. macrocephala, C. melitensis, C. montana, C. nigra, C. nigrescens, C. solstitialis, C. stoebe, C. trichocephala, C. ×varnensis
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