Plants : GentianaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Centaurium littorale (Turner ex Sm.) Gilmour

Seaside Centaury

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Centaurium littorale

Description: The Seaside Centaury is similar to the Common Centaury but has narrow leaves and the flowers are of a more intense colour. It is rare in Northern Ireland, being found only at a few sites on the North Coast sand dunes.

All names: Centaurium littorale (Turner ex Sm.) Gilmour; Centaurium minus Moench; Centaurium vulgare Rafn; Erythraea compressa Kunth; Erythraea littoralis (D.Turner) Fr.; Erythraea turneri Wheldon & Salmon

Distribution Map from NBN: Centaurium littorale at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Centaurium littorale at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Centaurium littorale. (Turner ex Sm.) Gilmour. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=3965. Accessed on 2026-11-02.