Centaurea montana (Mountain cornflower)

6/11/2025 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine · ≈ 6 × 4½″ (15 × 12 cm)

6/4/2021 · Emelie Tolley’s, Highland Green, Topsham, Maine · ≈ 6 × 3½″ (14 × 9.4 cm)

6/4/2021 · Emelie Tolley’s, Highland Green, Topsham, Maine · ≈ 5 × 4″ (12 × 10 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Asterales	Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies
Family	Asteraceae	The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers
Genus	Centaurea	From the Latin and a reference to the Centaur Chiron who was supposed to have discovered the medicinal uses of a plant in Greece that came to be called Centaury
Species	montana	Of the mountains