sweet sultan

Noun

• Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea

• perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers

• annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Amberboa moschata , Centaurea moschata , Centaurea imperialis , blessed thistle , Cnicus benedictus