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Centaurium tenuiflorum
Also called Channel Centaury
Slender centaury is a small annual herb in the gentian family, growing up to about 17 cm tall, native to the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. It is a wild plant rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so care is mostly about sunny, open, dry ground.
Centaurium tenuiflorum, the slender centaury, is a species of annual herb in the family Gentianaceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 17 cm tall. It is native to the Mediterranean basin, Western Asia to the Transcaucasus, Iran, and western Himalayas, Macaronesia, Great Britain, the Crimean Peninsula, Chad, and Socotra.
The species was first described as Erythraea tenuiflora by Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in 1813. In 1907 Karl Fritsch reassigned it to genus Centaurium as Centaurium tenuiflorum.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Centaurium tenuiflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
