Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 912 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Italia."

Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 3: 1631 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised)

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 80-81, map [secondary reference]

common name: Dusty Miller [n/a]

Hind, N., Hashi, M. & Brown, A. (21 January 2022), Centaurea cineraria, Compositae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 39(1): 43-47, Fig. 1, pl. 1009 [secondary reference]

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