Sweet scabious, pincushions; annual or biennial, with dark purple to rose or white fls and 8-veined corona, is rarely adventive with us and probably never persistent.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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