General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6a -23.3 °C (-10 °F) to -20.6 °C (-5 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 40-80 cm
Plant Spread: 40-60 cm
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Brown Knapweed
  • Brownray Knapweed

Photo Gallery
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-04
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-04

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: Nature reserve, Ghent, Belgium
Date: 2011-08-16
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-08-18

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels

credit: Steinsplitter
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-04
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
photo credit: H. Zell
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-04

photo credit: H. Zell

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