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Definition of Centaurea solstitialis
1. Noun. European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurea Solstitialis
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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