Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Centaurium texense
Centaurium texense (Griseb.) Fernald
Lady Bird's Centaury, Texas Centaury
Gentianaceae (Gentian Family)
USDA Symbol: CETE2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Centaurium texense
Texas Centuary
Gentianaceae
Location: Gunsight Mountain Ranch, Tarpley.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Dry, rocky, limestone soil. In full sun.
Description: Erect, sparsely branched annual, to 30 cm tall. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, greatly reduced above. Sepals to 6 mm, much shorter than corolla tube. Corolla pink, flaring slightly to narrow lobes (1.5-5 mm).
County: Bandera
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 18, 1992
Specimen number: 472
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0680
Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
Accession Number: 49
Annotations: SCFRN