Gentians and Centauries

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Gentian Family - Gentianaceae

Lesser Centaury      Centaurium puchellum

Native throughout much of the temperate and warm temperate Old World. Very similar to Common Centaury and hard to tell from it. Best key characters include the absence of a basal rosette of leaves and a gap of 1m-4mm between the base of the sepals and the topmost bracts.

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Sepal tube