Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3486

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in moist meadows, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Whitish
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Gentiana alba   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Gentiana alba   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 155-02-005:
 Gentiana alba   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Gentiana flavida

 

COMMON NAME:
 Pale Gentian, Plain Gentian

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image of Gentiana alba, Pale Gentian, Plain Gentian

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gefl_001_lvd