Crown Meadow (Knautia arvensis) is a plant of the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as common, but significantly decreased. Crown Meadow is in Europe and Asia.
Crown Meadow is a perennial. The plant is 15-60 cm long and has gray-green leaves. The lower and upper leaves very veerspletig. Crown Meadow has a branched rhizome (rhizome) and sometimes shoots. The stem is very short gray hair and long hair stiff hairs. Crown Meadow flowers with lilac flowers from June until autumn. Also are sometimes white or yellow flowers.
The flowers contain much nectar that both butterflies and honey bees to come off. There is even a solitary, the Knautiabij (Andrena hattorfiana) specifically dependent on this plant. Also in this is already on the Red list of Bees. The knautiawespbij is seen on this plant. This wespbij (Nomada armata) parasitic on the knautiabij.
Crown Meadow is in the Netherlands in berms and dikes in damp, calcareous soil, but also in the inner edges and along with bush, the plant for. Elsewhere, the plant grows in meadows and hedgerows.
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beemdkroon
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