Spotted knapweed
Centaurea stoebe
- Flowering period
- July–September
- Nectar
- gut
- Pollen
- mittel
Spotted knapweed flowers from July to September on dry grassland, sandy areas and railway embankments. It is biennial, heavily branched and bears many small pinkish-violet flower heads. On poor, hot sites it holds out when the meadows have long been scorched and is an important late-summer forage there.