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|accepted_name=Centaurea montana
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 911. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Mountain cornflower or bluet;centaurée des montagnes
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Centaurea;Centaurea montana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Centaurea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Centaurea montana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 183
|treatment_page=page 185
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 25–80 cm, from rhizomes or stolons. <b>Stems</b> 1–several, erect, simple or sparingly branched, villous with septate hairs and thinly arachnoid-tomentose with long, simple hairs. <b>Leaves</b> thinly villous and ± tomentose, glabrate; proximal leaves winged-petiolate, blades 10–30 cm, margins entire or remotely dentate to pinnately lobed; mid and distal leaves sessile, blades decurrent, ovate to oblong or lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate. <b>Heads</b> radiant, borne singly or in few-headed corymbiform arrays; (peduncles to 7 cm). <b>Involucres</b> ovoid to ± campanulate, 20–25 mm. <b>Principal</b> phyllaries: bodies greenish, ovate to lanceolate, scarious-margined, appendages appressed, brown to black, unarmed, decurrent on phyllary margins, pectinate-fringed, puberulent; innermost phyllaries sometimes unappendaged. <b>Florets</b> 35–60+; sterile florets 10–20, corollas blue (white, purple, or pink), 2.5–4.5 cm, corolla tube elongate. <b>Disc</b> florets 25–40+; corollas purple, ca. 20 mm; anthers dark blue-purple. <b>Cypselae</b> ± brown, 5–6 mm, sericeous; pappi of bristles 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24 (Germany), 40 (Russia), 44 (France).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Escaped from cultivation, roadsides, woodlands, sagebrush scrub
|elevation=0–1400 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Idaho;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Pa.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Centaurea montana</i> is a very handsome plant, native to the mountains of Europe, now widely cultivated as an ornamental.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Centaurea montana
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Escaped from cultivation, roadsides, woodlands, sagebrush scrub
|elevation=0–1400 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Idaho;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Pa.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Centaurea
|species=Centaurea montana
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