Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 663 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 328 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Centaurea picris Pall. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 719 [secondary reference]

common name: Russian Thistle [n/a] common name: Blue Weed [n/a] common name: Russian Knapweed [n/a] common name: Hardhead Thistle [n/a] common name: Creeping Knapweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 70 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acroptilon picris (Pall. ex Willd.) DC. isonym

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 163 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 587, Fig. 82J [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate common name: Russian Knapweed [n/a] common name: Creeping Knapweed [n/a]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acroptilon. Flora of New South Wales 3: 327 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acroptilon picris (Pall. ex Willd.) C.A.Mey. legitimate common name: Creeping Knapweed [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 679-680, Fig. 129j [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Centaurea repens L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd. legitimate common name: Creeping Knapweed [n/a]

Hidalgo, O., Garcia-Jacas, N., Garnatje, T. & Susanna, A. (2006), Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Annals of Botany new ser., 97: 714 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo legitimate

Hind, D.J.N. (18 May 2019), Leuzea repens, a new combination (Compositae: Cardueae: Centaureinae). Kew Bulletin 74: 3 [online only] [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind legitimate

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