: any of various weedy centaureas
especially
: a widely naturalized European perennial (Centaurea nigra) with tough wiry stems and knobby heads of purple flowers
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The Pull Your Share movement, started by Great Falls High teacher Dan Wilkins three years ago, encourages people to spend five to 15 minutes on their trips pulling out noxious, nonnative knapweed at campgrounds and other sites.
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USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
Invasives mainly on roadsides: Cutleaf teasel, wild parsnip,spotted knapweed, phragmites, leafy spurge, Canada thistle and crown vetch.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2017
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USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
Invasives mainly on roadsides: Cutleaf teasel, wild parsnip,spotted knapweed, phragmites, leafy spurge, Canada thistle and crown vetch.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2017
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“Knapweed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knapweed. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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