Centaurea diffusa

TaxID: 124929

Basic Information

Centaurea diffusa

Diffuse Knapweed, Diffuse knapweed

Centaurea diffusa, also known as diffuse knapweed, white knapweed or tumble knapweed, is a member of the genus Centaurea in the family Asteraceae. This species is common throughout western North America but is not actually native to the North American continent, but to the eastern Mediterranean.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Centaurea

diffusa

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Centaurea diffusa
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(c) Andrey Efremov@BY-NC
Centaurea diffusa
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(c) Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина@BY-NC
Centaurea diffusa
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(c) Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина@BY-NC
Centaurea diffusa
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(c) Franz Xaver@BY-SA
Centaurea diffusa
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(c) latimeria-co@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (5 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Brazil A1 list 2018
Chile A1 list 2024
China Quarantine pests 2021
India Quarantine pests —
Myanmar Quarantine pests —

Distribution (39 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

39
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
Czechia Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (29 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
VPSBC1181-13 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2011-08-13 49.18175, -119.09125
ITSAP114-14 - ITS2 214 United States - 38.82081, -96.33162
ITSAF819-14 - ITS2 214 - - -
IPSUB796-18 - trnH-psbA 463 Germany - 51.083046, 10.426171
IPSUB795-18 - trnH-psbA 463 Austria - 47.63186, 13.797778
IPSUB794-18 - trnH-psbA 463 Hungary - -
IPSUB793-18 - trnH-psbA 463 - - -
IPSUB792-18 - trnH-psbA 463 United States - -
IPSUB791-18 - trnH-psbA 463 United States - -
IPSUB790-18 - trnH-psbA 463 United States 1949-01-01 -
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Literature