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|accepted_name=Zeltnera texensis
|accepted_authority=(Grisebach) G. Mansion ex J. S. Pringle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=113: 514. 2012
|year=2012
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|common_names=Texas or Lady Bird’s centaury
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Erythraea texensis
|authority=Grisebach
|rank=species
|publication_title=Gen. Sp. Gent.,
|publication_place=139.  1838
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Centaurium texense
|authority=(Grisebach) Fernald
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Zeltnera;Zeltnera texensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zeltnera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Zeltnera texensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, 3–30 cm. <b>Stems</b> 1(–5), dividing below middle into ± equal branches, these further branching throughout or, in the smaller plants, branching only distally. <b>Leaves</b> usually all cauline; blade narrowly elliptic to linear (proximal) to filiform (distal), 7–25 × 0.5–4.5(–8) mm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, much-branched, dichasial, with a central flower in each fork, or distally sometimes monochasial cymes; pedicels 4–20 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous; calyx 6–12 mm; corolla 12–20 mm, lobes narrowly oblong to elliptic-oblong, 3–7 × 0.8–1.5 mm, apex acute; stigmas 2, fan-shaped. <b>Seeds</b> light brown. <b>2n</b> = 40, 42.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Prairies, barrens, open woods, other open, usually rocky sites, in calcareous soils.
|elevation=100–500 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León).
|discussion=<p>Zeltnera texensis has been reported from Nuevo León, Mexico (J. N. Mink et al. 2011b), remote from its range in the United States, but specimens have not been examined in studies for this flora. Reports of Z. texensis (as Centaurium) from Louisiana have been based on misidentified C. pulchellum and C. tenuiflorum (J. S. Pringle 2010b). Reports from New Mexico have been based on Z. arizonica and Z. maryanniana (studies for this flora).</p><!--
--><p>Zeltnera texensis differs from Z. maryanniana most conspicuously in being proximally single-stemmed without persistent basal leaves.</p><!--
--><p>The name Lady Bird’s centaury is for Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson, former First Lady of the United States, who promoted the conservation of native plant species and their use in beautifying highway verges. She especially liked this species and had seeds of it sown around the airstrip at the Johnson ranch in Texas.</p>
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name=Zeltnera texensis
|authority=(Grisebach) G. Mansion ex J. S. Pringle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Centaurium texense
|basionyms=Erythraea texensis
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Prairies, barrens, open woods, other open, usually rocky sites, in calcareous soils.
|elevation=100–500 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=2012
|special status=
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|genus=Zeltnera
|species=Zeltnera texensis
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