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Slender Centaury

 
Slender Centaury on a coastal
 
 undercliff, Dorset
 
 
Side view of a flower cluster
 
 
4-merous flower - 4 stamens, 2 stigmas
 
 
Close-up of 2 woolly stigmas, 4 stamens
 
 
 
5-merous flower - 5 stamens
 
 
Corolla tubes and calyces
 
 
Clustered habit
 
 
Upper leaves
 
 
Late season stem with llower-stem
 
leaves 
 
 
 
 Lower leaves with no basal rosette