EPPO Global Database

Centaurea jacea(CENJA)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-07

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: CENJA
  • Preferred name: Centaurea jacea
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

Europe, Caucasus. Introduced in Western Siberia, Russian Far East. Introduced in Eastern Siberia, Central Asia (Tadzhikistan), Korea, Canada (including Greenland), USA

WSSA list of weeds in North America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Centaurea jacea subsp. jacea Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
brown knapweed English
brown-rayed knapweed English
brown-scale knapweed English
French hardheads English
meadow knapweed English
gemeine Flockenblume German
gewöhnliche Flockenblume German
schmalblättrige Flockenblume German
Wiesenflockenblume German
centaurée amère French
centaurée jacée French
jacée des prés French
tête-de-moineau French
alazor silvestre Spanish
cártamo silvestre Spanish
escoba blanca Spanish
escoba hiesquera Spanish
escoba negra Spanish
escobera Spanish
hierba de los burros Spanish
hierba ojera Spanish
hierba rosa Spanish
jácea Spanish
jácea de los prados Spanish
liebrecilla Spanish
cardo silvestre Italian
centaurea comune Italian
centaurea silvestre Italian
erba amara Italian
erba della ferita Italian
fiordaliso stoppione Italian
giacea Italian
jacea maggiore Italian
steccioni Italian
echt knoopkruid Dutch
knoopkruid Dutch
jaca Portuguese
rödklint Swedish
василёк луговой Russian
almindelig knopurt Danish
vanleg knuppurt Norwegian
ahdekaunokki Finnish
serçebaşı Turkish
chaber łąkowy Polish
réti imola Hungarian
kokoçel Albanian
kokoçeli i livadhit Albanian
perenik i livadheve Albanian
ливадна метличина Bulgarian
ascardot Catalan
caps blaus Catalan
centàurea jàcea Catalan
livadna zečina Croatian
chrpa luční Czech
arujumikas Estonian
κενταύρια Greek
pļavas dzelzene Latvian
pakrūmine bajorė Lithuanian
albestriță de luncă Romanian
ливадски различак Serbian
krupina lúčna Slovak
navadni glavinec Slovene
волошка лучна Ukrainian