Centaurium pulchellum, (Swartz) Druce

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 59

11. C. pulchellum (Swartz) Druce , FI. Berks. 342 (1898)

( Erythraea pulchella (Swartz) Fries ; inch E. morierei Corb. , C. meyeri (Bunge) Druce ).

Annual 2-20 cm, without a basal leafrosette. Stem with 2-4 internodes, usually dichotomously branched from below the middle; branches erecto-patent. Leaves 0-2-1-5 x 0-1-1 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, increasing in length upwards. Flowers 10-12 mm, pinkishpurple, rarely white, in a lax dichasial cyme or solitary (sometimes 4-merous in small, delicate, unbranched plants). Calyx nearly equalling the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes 2-4 mm. Stamens inserted at the apex or in the upper 1 ( var. morierei (Corb.) Melderis ) of the corolla-tube. 2n = 36. Open habitats and damp grassy places, especially near the sea. M ost o f Europe, northwards to c. 61° N. in Finland. All except Fa Is Rs (N) Sb.