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Centaurium erythraea (European centaury)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Centaurium erythraea is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common names common centaury and European centaury.
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Infraspecies

Centaurium erythraea apertum
Centaurium erythraea bernardii
Centaurium erythraea enclusense
Centaurium erythraea erythraea (European centaury)
Centaurium erythraea grandiflorum
Centaurium erythraea ihodense
Centaurium erythraea rhodense
Centaurium erythraea rumelicum
Centaurium erythraea var. capitatum
Centaurium erythraea var. erythraea
Centaurium erythraea var. laxum

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Beetles, Bats
Scent [1]  Although the growing plant is scentless, if the cut stems are immersed in warm water for 24 hours a most penetrating odour will be observed on distillation.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  A long-lasting bright yellowish-green dye is obtained from the flowers;
Height [1]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Width [1]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Predators

Chromatomyia gentianae[4]
Macropus eugenii (Tammar Wallaby)[5]
Smicronyx reichi <Unverified Name>[4]
Stenoptilia zophodactyla <Unverified Name>[6]
Stenoptilia zophodactylus[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora erythraeae[8]
Taeniolina centaurii[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Diet of herbivorous marsupials in a Eucalyptus marginata forest and their impact on the understorey vegetation, K A Shepherd, G W Wardell-Johnson, W A Loneragan & D T Bell, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 80:47-54, 1997
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0