Species profile—Acroptilon repens (creeping knapweed)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Asteraceae (sunflower) → Acroptilon repens (creeping knapweed)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Asteraceae (sunflower)
- Scientific name
- Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.
- Common name
- creeping knapweed
- WildNet taxon ID
- 15659
- Superseded by
- Leuzea repens (03/04/2019)
Rhaponticum repens (03/04/2019) - Alternate name(s)
- russian knapweed
Russian thistle
Russian centaurea
hardheads
hardhead thistle
blueweed - Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Exotic
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=15659.
This information is sourced from the WildNet platform managed by the Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
