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Centaurea montana |
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Mountain Bluet, Perennial Bachelor's
Button, Mountain Knapweed |
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 3-8 |
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Northern Europe and Southern Europe |
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Erect plant |
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12-24 inches tall by 12 inches wide |
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Solitary blue heads are borne on short
peduncles, flowers are 2 inches wide involucral bracts have
black, fringed margins. |
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Early to midsummer |
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Alternate, broadly-lanceolate or
obovate-oblanceolate, toothed margin, decurrent to the
stem, younger leaves silvery-white. Plant is usually
unbranched and many times
stoloniferous. |
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Centaurea is derived from the Greek word,
centaur, meaning famous for healing. Greek
mythology claims Chiron the Centaur used the
plant to heal a wound in his foot. |
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