Fr: centaurée maculée, centaurée tachetée
Provincial Status: Ni
Range: central Europe and east-central Asia; widely introduced in North America; intr. in wNfld. (Pasadena).
[=Centaurea australis Pancic ex A.Kern. (basionym)]
[=Acosta biebersteinii (DC.) Dostál]
[=Acosta micranthos (S.G.Gmel.) Soják]
[=Acosta radoslavoffii (Urum.) Holub]
[=Acrolophus biebersteinii (DC.) Á.Löve & D.Löve]
[=Centaurea biebersteinii DC.]
[=Centaurea biebersteinii DC. subsp. australis (Pancic ex A.Kern.) Dostál]
[=Centaurea biebersteinii DC. subsp. radoslavoffii (Urum.) Dostál]
[=Centaurea biebersteinii DC. subsp. rhodopaea (Hayek & H.Wagner) Dostál]
[=Centaurea epapposa Simonk.]
[=Centaurea micranthos S.G.Gmel. ex Gugler]
[=Centaurea stoebe L. subsp. micranthos (S.G.Gmel. ex Gugler) Hayek]
[This European knapweed, previously known as Centaurea stoebe L. subsp. micranthos (S.G.Gmel. ex Gugler) Hayek, is now known as Centaurea stoebe L. subsp. australis Pančić ex A.Kern.) Greuter; it was first documented from insular Newfoundland (Pasadena, wNfld.) by Henry Mann in 2010 (SWGC).]