Branched Centaury at Molonglo Valley, ACT
Identification history
| Centaurium tenuiflorum | 2 Mar 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Centaurium tenuiflorum | 23 Feb 2022 | Tapirlord | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Feb 2022 | sangio7 |
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User's notes
It looked like the top of the plant had been bitten or broken off - the remnant was only about 20 cm tall, but flowering strongly. It is on a rocky slope that would have been quite moist until the recent dry spell but is now pretty dry, as shown by the moss patches in the second image.
4 comments
sangio7
wrote:
23 Feb 2022
I guess a centaury was the only thing that the flower looked similar to when I trawled through images of all the possible plants, but the flower was definitely white and I haven't been able to find a description that says there are centaurys with white petals. Could they be bleached from water stress?
Tapirlord
wrote:
23 Feb 2022
White flowering forms are not uncommon, though i can't think of why off the top of my head.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.034247-35.265016
- Altitude 623.0m
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 22 Feb 2022 10:06 AM Recorded on
- sangio7 Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Other Wildflowers & Herbs sangio7 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
Species information
- Centaurium tenuiflorum Scientific name
- Branched Centaury Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 832.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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