GENTIANACEAE
Centaurium texense
Common Name: Texas Centaury, Lady Bird's Centaury
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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 |
leaves (these leaves are dying, because the plant is reaching the end of its annual life cycle)--are these leaves opposite or alternate? | |