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Cicendia filiformis
Also called Slender Cicendia
Yellow centaury is a tiny annual wildflower of damp, sandy or peaty ground, usually seen in seasonally wet pools and heath. Its key to growing it is consistently moist, open, low-competition soil in full sun.
Cicendia filiformis, also called yellow centaury or slender cicendia, is a species of flowering planet of the family Gentianaceae.
C. filiformis is found around seasonally-flooded pools, alongside rutted tracks, and growing on heathlands of acid grassland with sandy or peaty soils. It grows best in areas where there are also free-roming grazing animals and few competitive species. C. filiformis tends to be found alongside several other species of declining plants including three-lobed water-crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus), chaffweed (Anagallis minima), allseed (Radiola linoides), and pillwort (Pilularia globulifera).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cicendia filiformis 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.
