Centaurea kotschyanaHeuff.

WFO wfo-0000016324 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. a xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-08-05 / obs. 79660041
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. b xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 79658037
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. c Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85517872
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. d xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 79660620
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. e Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85517891
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. f Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85517923
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. g Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85517943
Centaurea kotschyana, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. h xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 79660052

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1310348
Filed as
Centaurea kotschyana Heuff.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
E. Brandis 1902-08
Origin
BA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Centaurea kotschyana is native: Albania, Bulgaria, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaBulgariaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Centaurea kotschyana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acrocentron kotschyanum (Heuff.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Centaurea heerffelii Rchb.f.
  • Centaurea heuffelii Rchb.f.
  • Centaurea kotschyana var. kotschyana
  • Colymbada kotschyana (Heuff.) Holub

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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