{{short description|Species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae}} {{Speciesbox |image = Centaurea bella fleur-Clapiers-7671~2020 04 18.jpg |image_caption = Flowers of ''Psephellus bellus'' |image2 = Centaurea bella leaves-Clapiers-5153~2016 01 03.JPG |image2_caption = The gray-green to silvery tomentose leaves of ''Psephellus bellus'' |display_parents = 3 |genus = Psephellus |species = bellus |authority = (Trautv.) Wagenitz<ref>Willdenowia 30(1): 36 (2000)</ref> |synonyms = * ''Centaurea bella''<ref>''Centaurea bella'' Trautv. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. x. (1866) 394.</ref> }}
'''''Psephellus bellus''''' is a species in the genus ''Psephellus'', subtribe Centaureinae, found in Anatolia and Transcaucasia.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wagenitz |first=Gerhard |last2=Hellwig |first2=Frank H. |title=The genus ''Psephellus'' Cass. (Compositae, Cardueae) revisited with a broadened concept |journal=Willdenowia |publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM) |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=29–44 |doi=10.3372/wi.30.30102 |doi-access=free }}<!--|access-date=5 January 2016--></ref> It is an evergreen plant, with gray-green to silvery imparipinnate leaves showing elliptic to ovate leaflets. It is used in gardening because the creeping stems can root in contact to the ground, and the plant grows slowly into a dense cover.<ref>{{cite book |last=Filippi |first=Olivier |date=2007 |title=Pour un jardin sans arrosage (For a garden without irrigation) |location=Arles |publisher=Actes Sud |page=207 |isbn=978-2-7427-6730-4}}</ref> The flowers are purplish pink and bloom from March to June.
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Category:Cardueae Category:Plants described in 1866 {{Cynareae-stub}}