Slender centaury

Centaurium tenuiflorum

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Not native

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

County records are not available.

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Ecological relationships

1CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · Centaurium

—BeesSoutheastern regional records

—Specialist beesPollen specialists

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Growing and identification

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.