Knapweed Collection

Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton AEW. 2 WR960 Dougal
Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WR960 Dougal, delivered to No.8 Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth on 8 June 1972 and retired in 1981

Greater knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Giant knapweed, Centaurea macrocephala
Giant knapweed or large-headed yellow centaury, Centaurea macrocephala. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr

Curtis British Entomology Plate 361
Hymenoptera: Saropoda bimaculata = Anthophora bimaculata (Two-spotted Saropoda) [Plant: Centaurea scabiosa (Great Knapweed)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 241
Diptera: Tephritis cornutus = Terellia ceratocera (Long-horned Aster-fly) [Plant: Centaurea nigra (Black Knapweed)] Date: 1824-39

Pollen sketch by Francis Bauer
Francis Bauers pollen watercolour sketch from the Natural History Museums Botany Library. Page 63, showing Centaurea, Clarkia, Achilia, Bignonia and other pollen

Brown knapweed or brownray knapweed, Centaurea jacea.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Botanical Sketchbook -- Knapweed. Date: 1920s

Centaurea glastifolia, yellow star thistle
Watercolour No. 31 from Volume 2 by Simon Taylor, c. mid-1700s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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