Centaurea benedicta Calflora

Calflora, a 501c3 non-profit

Taxon Report

Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

Blessed thistle

2009 Neal Kramer

2020 Diane Etchison

2008 Luigi Rignanese

2006 Chris Wagner, SBNF

2009 Stanley Spencer

Centaurea benedicta is an annual herb that is not native to California.


	Plant Range Observation Search (335 records) Plant Characteristics

Bloom Period

Photos from Calflora / CalPhotos


Genus:	Centaurea
Family:	Asteraceae
Category:	angiosperm
PLANTS group:	Dicot
Jepson eFlora section: eudicot

Habitat: disturbed

Communities: weed, characteristic of disturbed places

Name Status:
Accepted by JEF

Alternate Names:


JEF	Cnicus benedictus
PLANTS	Cnicus benedictus

More information about Centaurea benedicta


Jepson eFlora USDA PLANTS Profile (CNBE) BONAP Distribution Map	International Plants Names Index Search efloras.org (Flora of North America) Google Images Consortium of California Herbaria 2	Add an Observation Location Suitability Distribution by County
photos / record / common / links null:!po158766:!null:!null:!null:!

Suggested Citation

Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals, including the Consortium of California Herbaria. [web application]. 2022. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database [a non-profit organization]. Available: https://www.calflora.org/ (Accessed: 09/26/2022).