Knautia

Knautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae. It includes 55 species native to Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Siberia.<ref name = powo/> The common names are variants of "widow flower". Others are given the name "scabious", which properly belongs to the related genus (Scabiosa). The name Knautia comes from the 17th-century German botanists, Drs. Christoph and Christian Knaut.<ref>The Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People & Places by Julia Brittain</ref>

Species

55 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>

• Knautia adriatica Template:Small
• Knautia albanica Template:Small
• Knautia × alleizettei Template:Small
• Knautia ambigua Template:Small
• Knautia arvensis Template:Small – Meadow widow flower, blue buttons, field scabious
• Knautia arvernensis Template:Small
• Knautia baldensis Template:Small
• Knautia basaltica Template:Small
• Knautia byzantina Template:Small
• Knautia calycina Template:Small
• Knautia carinthiaca Template:Small
• Knautia caroli-rechingeri Template:Small
• Knautia × chassagnei Template:Small
• Knautia clementii Template:Small
• Knautia collina Template:Small
• Knautia dalmatica Template:Small
• Knautia degenii Template:Small
• Knautia dinarica Template:Small
• Knautia dipsacifolia Template:Small
• Knautia × dobrogensis Template:Small
• Knautia drymeia Template:Small – Hungarian widow flower
• Knautia fleischmannii Template:Small
• Knautia foreziensis Template:Small
• Knautia godetii Template:Small
• Knautia goecmenii Template:Small
• Knautia gussonei Template:Small
• Knautia illyrica Template:Small
• Knautia integrifolia Template:Small
• Knautia × intercedens Template:Small
• Knautia involucrata Template:Small
• Knautia kitaibelii Template:Small
• Knautia lebrunii Template:Small
• Knautia legionensis Template:Small
• Knautia × leucantha Template:Small
• Knautia longifolia Template:Small – Long leaf widow flower
• Knautia lucana Template:Small
• Knautia macedonica Template:Small – Macedonian scabious
• Knautia magnifica Template:Small
• Knautia mauritanica Template:Small
• Knautia mollis Template:Small
• Knautia nevadensis Template:Small
• Knautia × norica Template:Small
• Knautia numantina Template:Small
• Knautia × oecsemensis Template:Small
• Knautia orientalis Template:Small
• Knautia pancicii Template:Small
• Knautia pectinata Template:Small
• Knautia persicina Template:Small
• Knautia × posoniensis Template:Small
• Knautia ressmannii Template:Small
• Knautia rupicola Template:Small
• Knautia salvadoris Template:Small
• Knautia × sambucifolia Template:Small
• Knautia sarajevensis Template:Small
• Knautia shepardii Template:Small
• Knautia slovaca Template:Small
• Knautia × speciosa Template:Small
• Knautia subcanescens Template:Small
• Knautia subscaposa Template:Small
• Knautia tatarica Template:Small
• Knautia transalpina Template:Small
• Knautia travnicensis Template:Small
• Knautia × ujhelyii Template:Small
• Knautia velebitica Template:Small
• Knautia velutina Template:Small
• Knautia visianii Template:Small