Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Gentiana at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
COMMON NAME:
Prairie Closed Gentian, Closed Bottle Gentian
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_daan_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
601
Forb
Perennial
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -
Rare
Look for it in meadows, seeps, forest edges, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gentians of the Eastern US p072
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p141
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p132
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p252?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p124?