| Common Name: | Brown Knapweed |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Centaurea |
| Species: | jacea |
| Classification/Rank: | Extremely Invasive |
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| Habitat/Range: |
• perennial plant that grows 0.3-1.5m tall • rigid stems that may be purple striped • leaves are entire or toothed, broadly elliptical, and occasionally lobed • flowers are rose-purple and found solitarily at the end of upper branches; bracts are light to dark brown
Land owners and managers have long recognized the need to control invasive plants to limit their impacts. In May 2018, a new smartphone app...
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