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§1 Plant

Centaurium erythraea Rafn

vernacular European centaury — species · Gentianaceae


USDA
CEER5
GBIF
5414457
Rank
species
European centaury (Centaurium erythraea)
Platephotograph · Hans HillewaertCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Gentianaceae Juss.
Genus
Centaurium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 80 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 80 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 80 counties across 16 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 3 I
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I
Idaho view state ↗ 4 I
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I
Michigan view state ↗ 9 I
New York view state ↗ 12 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I
Oregon view state ↗ 19 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 I
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I
Washington view state ↗ 13 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CEER5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5414457 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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