Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Yellow Star-thistle - Centaurea solstitialis   L.
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DistributionA single specimen is known: Halifax County, weed in Weldon, 1953, Bertram W. Wells s.n. (NCSC).

Native of Mediterranean Europe; in N.A. essentially throughout the U.S. and southern Canada.
AbundanceVery rare.
HabitatNo NC data.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting June-October.
IdentificationYellow Star-thistle is distinct in its smallish, ovoid to globular heads that sport stiff sharp spines. The corollas are yellow. It is freely branched from the base, but reaches only about 1-2 feet tall, looking a bit "bushy".
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