Centaurea stoebe (Spotted knapweed)

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	stoebe	The PlantzAfrica website says that the name of the genus Stoebe is from the Greek stoibe, “stuffing, padding or heap.” It was apparently used for packing wine jars and making brooms and bedding. Umberto Quattrocchi gives the following, also for the genus Stoebe: “Greek steibein, stibo ‘to tread firmly,’ stoibe ‘thorny burnet, a species of Poterium,’ Latin stoebe, es for a plant, called also pheos (Plinius).” From David Hollombe: “stoibe, name used by Dioscorides for Poterium spinosum, also meaning a cushion or pad”