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Davy's Centaury
Zeltnera davyi
  
About Davy's Centaury (Zeltnera davyi) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Centaurium davyi is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common name Davy's centaury. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the coastline around the San Francisco Bay Area and areas north, as well as from Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands. It grows in moist coastal habitat, such as bluffs, dunes, and forest. It is an annual herb not exceeding about 25 centimeters in height, with oval leaves under 2 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a small, open array of flowers, some on very short pedicels. Each flower has generally five overlapping corolla lobes, each only a few millimeters in length, usually pink or partially pink in color.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
9.8 in tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Pink

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Part Shade

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Moist coastal areas

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 8.8" - 51.9", Summer Precipitation: 0.14" - 0.85", Coldest Month: 41.2" - 57.3", Hottest Month: 58.1" - 78.1", Humidity: 0.01" - 25.93", Elevation: -253" - 3577"

Alternative Names
Botanical Names: Centaurium davyi
Common Names: Ucsc Mini-zeltnera Aff. Davyi


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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