Knautia <\/b><\/strong>–<\/p>\n

There are 60 species of annuals and perennials in this genus. \u00a0Found from limestone grassland, scrub, and woodland in Europe, Caucasus, Russia, and North Africa. \u00a0They have over wintering rosettes of simple to pinnatifid basal leaves, and opposite pairs of stem leaves, which are pinnatifid or simple. \u00a0Tall stems bear cup shaped involucres of bracts, surrounding dense, bluish lilac or reddish purple flower heads. \u00a0They are attractive to bees. \u00a0Grow in a herbaceous border, cottage garden, or wild garden.<\/p>\n

Grow in moderately fertile, well drained, preferably alkaline soil in full sun or part shade.<\/p>\n

Prone to aphids.<\/p>\n

\u00a0K. <\/b><\/strong>arvensis – Scabiosa arvensis – Blue Buttons – Field Scabious <\/b><\/strong>– This clump forming, deeply tap rooted perennial originally from Europe,. Caucasus, Iran to Central Asia and Russia has been naturalized in parts of North America grows 5\u2019 feet tall and just 12\u201d wide. \u00a0It has erect but often lax, hairless stems, the lower parts bristly. \u00a0It produces simple to pinnatifid, hairy, dull green leaves, 2-10\u201d long, simple or pinnatifid higher up the stem. \u00a0Flat topped, pale purple-blue pincushion like flower heads, 1 \u00bc-1 \u00bd\u201d across, with softly bristly involucres bracts, are borne from mid summer to early autumn.<\/p>\n

Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knautia – There are 60 species of annuals and perennials in this genus. \u00a0Found from limestone grassland, scrub, and woodland in Europe, Caucasus, Russia, and North Africa. \u00a0They have over wintering rosettes of simple to pinnatifid basal leaves, and opposite pairs of stem leaves, which are pinnatifid or simple. \u00a0Tall stems bear cup shaped involucres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,60,41,31,20],"product_tag":[92],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252001"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}