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Knautia macedonica

Brenda:  The correct spelling is. Knautia, not Knautica and the 
species name is macedonica. 

The 2 vol. Random House Book of Perennials (the best reference guide 
to species perennials, in my opinion) has a picture of it. This set of 
books is superb as it is cover to cover pictures of perennials (most 
photographed in the wild) with good descriptions and habitat 
information (which of course, gives the best clues as to where to 
plant in our own gardens). I own everything from Hortus III, Flora 
Europa, Harkness Seedlist, Hardy Herbaceous Perennials (Jelitto & 
Schacht-Timber) etc. etc. but I really think there is nothing to 
compare with the Random House for its range of colour pictures. Re, 
the pictures, what is also unique is that while most of the 
encyclopedic types of books will give descriptions of many species 
within a genus- you rarely get more than one picture of one species. 
For example, I seem to recall the section on hardy geraniums has over 
20 pages of pictures of different geranium species (something 
certainly minimally necessary with genera as large as this). 

Kristl Walek
Gardens North
Z4, Ontario Canada
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