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Species
Least Concernlesser centaury
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyGentianaceae
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Chad
Observations recorded80,382
Chile Central
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4,181
- With media
- 3,017
- Family
- Gentianaceae
- Collections
- USFWS, MSC, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, QUE, CM, CSCN
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Brazil, India
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Encyclopedic overview
Centaurium pulchellum is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common name lesser centaury, or slender centaury. It differs from Centaurium erythraea by lacking basal rosette of leaves and by having a developed peduncle below the flowers. It is often much smaller, less than ten centimetres. It is native to the southern temperate parts of Europe.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Centaurium pulchellum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.