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Digital Herbaria

Centaurium texense

Centaurium texense (Griseb.) Fernald

Lady Bird's Centaury, Texas Centaury

Gentianaceae (Gentian Family)

USDA Symbol: CETE2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)







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Specimen & Label Data

Centaurium texense

Lady Bird's Centaury

Gentianaceae

Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes, TX.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Bottom of west facing hill in full sun. Soil very poor, stoney, rocky, with very little dirt or humus.

Description: Erect plant with single stem to 30 cm high. Cololla lobes about 5 mm long, 1/2 length of corolla tube. Corolla lobes up to 2 mm wide, cauline leaves generally linear or narrowly oblanceolate, about 20 mm long and 4 mm wide. Flower pink.

County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: May 10, 1995
Specimen number: 165

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1029
Accession Date: May 23, 1995
Accession Number: 82

Annotations: SCXRB (In flower)

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