Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)

Plants with white flowers
Common Scurvy Grass	Danish Scurvy Grass
Prickly Saltwort	Rock Samphire
Sea Aster	Sea Mouse-ear
Sea Campion	Sea Carrot
Sea Kale	Sea Rocket
Dewberry	Burnet Rose
White Rock-rose	Wood Sage
Glasswort

Plants with yellow flowers
Common Rock-rose	Hoary Rock-rose
Golden Samphire	Yellow Horned Poppy
Field Fleawort	Silver Ragwort
Sea purslane	Wild Cabbage
Sea Wormwood

Plants with red or pink flowers
Beach Rose	Greater Sea Spurrey
Red Valerian	Common Storksbill
Sand Spurrey	Hares Foot Clover
Sea Bindweed	Sea Pink
Hounds Tongue	Common Centaury
Spear-leaved Orache	Tree Mallow

Plants with blue or purple flowers
Common Sea Lavender	Rock Sea Lavender
Vernal Squill	Sea Holly
Sheep's Bit

Plants with green or brown flowers
Sea Beet	Sea Spurge
Alexanders	Sea Plantain

Grasses & Shrubs
Marram Grass	Lyme Grass
Cord Grass	Sea Buckthorn

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The flowers of the Centaury are a common sight on sand dunes and saltmarsh in summer. It grows to about a foot in height, with 5-petalled bright pink flowers.