Knautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. It includes 55 species native to Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Siberia.[1] 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 comes from the 17th-century German botanists, Drs. Christoph and Christian Knaut.[2]
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| Knautia arvensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Family: | Caprifoliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsacoideae |
| Genus: | Knautia L. |
| Species[1] | |
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55; see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
edit55 species are accepted.[1]
- Knautia adriatica Ehrend.
- Knautia albanica Briq.
- Knautia × alleizettei Chass. & Szabó
- Knautia ambigua Boiss. & Orph.
- Knautia arvensis (L.) Coult. – Meadow widow flower, blue buttons, field scabious
- Knautia arvernensis (Briq.) Szabó
- Knautia baldensis A.Kern. ex Borbás
- Knautia basaltica Chass. & Szabó
- Knautia byzantina Fritsch
- Knautia calycina (C.Presl) Guss.
- Knautia carinthiaca Ehrend.
- Knautia caroli-rechingeri Micevski
- Knautia × chassagnei Szabó
- Knautia clementii (Beck) Ehrenb.
- Knautia collina (Gaudin) Jord.
- Knautia dalmatica Beck
- Knautia degenii Borbás
- Knautia dinarica (Murb.) Borbás
- Knautia dipsacifolia Kreutzer
- Knautia × dobrogensis Prodan
- Knautia drymeia Heuff. – Hungarian widow flower
- Knautia fleischmannii (Hladnik ex Rchb.) Beck
- Knautia foreziensis Chass. & Szabó
- Knautia godetii Reut.
- Knautia goecmenii Yıldırım
- Knautia gussonei Szabó
- Knautia illyrica Beck
- Knautia integrifolia (Honck. ex L.) Bertol.
- Knautia × intercedens Beck
- Knautia involucrata Sommier & Levier
- Knautia kitaibelii (Schult.) Borbás
- Knautia lebrunii J.Prudhomme
- Knautia legionensis (Lag.) DC.
- Knautia × leucantha Schur
- Knautia longifolia (Waldst. & Kit.) W.D.J.Koch – Long leaf widow flower
- Knautia lucana Lacaita & Szabó
- Knautia macedonica Griseb. – Macedonian scabious
- Knautia magnifica Boiss. & Orph.
- Knautia mauritanica Pomel
- Knautia mollis Jord.
- Knautia nevadensis (M.Winkl. ex Szabó) Szabó
- Knautia × norica Ehrend.
- Knautia numantina (Pau) Devesa, Ortega Oliv. & J.López
- Knautia × oecsemensis Nyár.
- Knautia orientalis L.
- Knautia pancicii Szabó
- Knautia pectinata Ehrend.
- Knautia persicina A.Kern.
- Knautia × posoniensis Degen
- Knautia ressmannii (Pacher) Borbás
- Knautia rupicola (Willk.) Font Quer
- Knautia salvadoris Sennen ex Szabó
- Knautia × sambucifolia (Godet) Briq.
- Knautia sarajevensis (Beck) Szabó
- Knautia shepardii Post & Beauverd
- Knautia slovaca Štěpánek
- Knautia × speciosa Schur
- Knautia subcanescens Jord.
- Knautia subscaposa Boiss. & Reut.
- Knautia tatarica (L.) Szabó
- Knautia transalpina (Christ ex Gremli) Briq.
- Knautia travnicensis (Beck) Szabó
- Knautia × ujhelyii Jáv.
- Knautia velebitica Szabó
- Knautia velutina Briq.
- Knautia visianii Szabó
References
edit- ^ a b c d Knautia L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ The Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People & Places by Julia Brittain