GENTIANACEAE

Centaurium texense

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Centaurium texense flowers.jpg (32052 bytes)

Centaurium texense fruitssepals.jpg (43962 bytes)
flowers--gentians typically have 5-merous (5-parted) flowers; are they dicots or monocots? flowers, developing fruits, and sepals--notice the long corolla tubes, the elongate fruit, and the linear sepals
Centaurium texense leaves.jpg (33745 bytes)
leaves (these leaves are dying, because the plant is reaching the end of its annual life cycle)--are these leaves opposite or alternate?