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Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Asterales: Asteraceae: Centaurea maculosa
Common Name: Spotted Knapweed

Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Tucker
Date (D-M-Y): 9 - 2002

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
 Location: Monongahela National Forest

Keywords: A alien invasive FEFT forb Monongahela National Forest Oriskany Sandstone purple flower violet flower West Virginia
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Spotted Knapweed is an annual, or biennial, and an alien, invasive species from Europe. This specimen is growing among boulders of the Oriskany Sandstone.

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