Definition of Centaurea solstitialis

1. Noun. European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States.

Exact synonyms: Barnaby's Thistle, Yellow Star-thistle
Generic synonyms: Weed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurea Solstitialis

Cenchrus ciliaris
Cenchrus tribuloides
Cenozoic
Cenozoic era
Census Bureau
Centaur
Centaurea
Centaurea americana
Centaurea cineraria
Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea gymnocarpa
Centaurea imperialis
Centaurea moschata
Centaurea nigra
Centaurea scabiosa
Centaurea solstitialis
Centauria calcitrapa
Centaurium
Centaurium calycosum
Centaurium minus
Centaurium scilloides
Centaurs
Centaurus
Centennial State
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Center of the Universe
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centigrade thermometer
Central Africa
Central African

Literary usage of Centaurea solstitialis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"centaurea solstitialis L. Sp. PI. 917. 1753. Annual, cottony-pubescent, branched, l°-2° high. the stem and branches winged by the decurrent leaf- bases. ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"centaurea solstitialis, L., seems more of a curiosity than the foregoing plant on account of its curious involucra! spines and bright yellow florets, ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"FW centaurea solstitialis L. Barnaby's-thistle; Yellow star-thistle Herbaceous annual Wharves, ore heaps, ballast ground, cultivated fields, fencerows and ..."

4. The Poems of Virgil: Vol. I. Containing the Pastoral Poems and Six Books of by Virgil (1874)
"... a yellow flower of strong fragrance (E. ii. 50): Calendula officinalis ? CARDUUS, thistle (E. v. 39; G. i. 151): centaurea solstitialis ? ..."

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