Category: Plants

#342 They called me Centaurium pulchellum, also known as Centaurium hermannii, Erythraea gerardii, Centaurium pulchellum var. hermannii, Chironia vaillantii, Chironia gerardii, and Erythraea hermannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Hermann, John Gerard, and Sébastien Vaillant. They first catalogued me in 1906.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.