Muhlenberg's centaury (Centaurium muehlenbergii) COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Muhlenberg's Centaury in Canada COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Muhlenberg’s Centaury Centaurium muehlenbergii in Canada

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Table of contents

• COSEWIC Assessment Summary
• COSEWIC Executive Summary
• Species Information
• Distribution
• Habitat
• Biology
• Population Sizes and Trends
• Limiting Factors and Threats
• Special Significance of the Species
• Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
• Technical Summary
• Acknowledgements and Authorities Consulted
• Information Sources
• Biographical Summary of Report Writers
• Collections Examined

COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC. 2008. COSEWIC assessment and status report on theMuhlenberg’s centaury, Centaurium muehlenbergii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 32 pp.

Production note:

COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Michael T. Miller and Wynne Miles for writing the status report on the Muhlenberg’s centaury, Centaurium muehlenbergii,in Canada. COSEWIC also gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the B.C. Conservation Data Centre and the B.C. Ministry of Environment. The COSEWIC report review was overseen by Erich Haber, Co-chair (Vascular Plants), COSEWIC Plants and Lichens Specialist Subcommittee, with input from members of COSEWIC. That review may have resulted in changes and additions to the initial version of the report.

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la petite-centaurée de Muhlenberg (Centaurium muehlenbergii) au Canada.

Cover illustration:

Muhlenberg’s centaury -- Line drawing from Hitchcock et al. 1959 and Douglas et al. 1999, reproduced with permission from University of Washington Press.

©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2008.

Catalogue No. CW69-14/554-2008E-PDF

ISBN 978-0-662-48927-6