Glossary entry

Latin term or phrase:

Stemmacantha rhapontica

English translation:

knapweed

Added to glossary by Albert Golub
Feb 14, 2001 00:47
23 yrs ago
Latin term

Stemmacantha rhapontica

Non-PRO Latin to English Other
It's just the Latin name for an Alpine plant, but does it have an English name?(I have found French, Italian and German names for it!)
Proposed translations (English)
0 knapweed

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knapweed


a type of centaurea
lamarck, a french botanist, named this species
now you must find which one it is exactly
helped because i was born in savoie (french alps), i must have seen a lot but never knew what it is called
hope it helps
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, further searching tells me its the giant knapweed, and rare, if no endangered. It is for the translation of the Vanoise Nat Park web-site. (It is not the subspecies lamarckii)."
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