Centaurium erythraea, Centaurium minus - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Common centaury, European centaury

Botanical name & synonyms: Centaurium erythraea, Centaurium minus, Centaurium umbellatum, Erythraea latifolia, Centaurium latifolium, Centaurium majus, Centaurium minus, Centaurium suffruticosum, Centaurium turcicum, Erythraea boissieri, Erythraea centaurium, Erythraea divaricata, Erythraea fastuosa, Erythraea grandiflora, Erythraea major, Erythraea purpureo-lutea, Erythraea turcica

Family: (Gentianaceae)

• native to Europe and parts of western Asia and northern Africa
  

• 10 to 30cm
  

• flower VII to IX
  

• annual
  

• plant community: semi-dry grasslands, forest edges
  

• medicinal and poisonous plant
  

• weight of 1000 seeds = 0,01 gram