| Common Name: | Greater knapweed |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Centaurea |
| Species: | scabiosa |
| Classification/Rank: | Extremely Invasive |
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| Habitat/Range: | • two sites reported east of Burns Lake, and one in Telkwa in 1997; may have been first record of this knapweed in BC |
• perennial herb that rows 0.3 to 1.5 m tall
• stems erect, densely branched; branches green, five angled, sparsely black hairy, tipped with spines
• basal leaves egg-shaped in outline, deeply irregularly pinnately segmented with narrow, lance shaped segments; stem leaves broader, reduced upwards
• flowers are purple; heads discoid, few to several on ascending branches; bracts egg to lance shaped, black or brown
NWIPC's Annual Report for 2017 was released at our AGM in Smithers in October 2018. Check it out here.
Land owners and managers have long recognized the need to control invasive plants to limit their impacts. In May 2018, a new smartphone app...
