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9th Aug 2014, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
It is fairly pointless commenting on the features because they will vary depending how much variance there is between the two parents and their possible back-crosses. |
9th Aug 2014, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
A rather short specimen. |
9th Aug 2014, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
The brown cylinders alongside are the fruits. |
9th Aug 2014, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Here the yellow anthers have twisted into a tight spiral, which happens to all(?) Centaurys after the flower has opened. The stigma is flatter than that on Seaside Centaury which is one of this hybrids parents. |
9th Aug 2014, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Some stems square, with either a few ridges or very short wings on the corners (not diagnostic; all Centauries seem to variously have square stems with stubby wings and rounded stems elsewhere). |
This is the hybrid between Seaside Centaury (Centaurium littorale) and Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) which is called simply Centaurium × intermedium and it has characteristics almost anywhere inbetween both parents.
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