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Slender Centaury

Centaurium tenuiflorum

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) kadydid88, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	669
California	516
Australia	249
Victoria	107
Texas	98
Israel	92
New South Wales	58
Spain	50
South Australia	41
Haifa	39

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Wetland-associatedListed by a harvested source as obligate or frequent in wetland habitat.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies · Gentianales
Family	gentian family · Gentianaceae
Genus	Centauries · Centaurium

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Plants of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Slender Centaury with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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