Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Striped Gentian at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-02-004:
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Dasystephana villosa
COMMON NAME:
Striped Gentian
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_davi3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm110417_002
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
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JK Marlow jkm110417_999
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
Unlike blue-flowering gentians, lower leaves decidedly wider above middle, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm060928_064
September York County SC
Utility right-of-way
Dark green, glossy leaves, per Gentians of the Eastern US.
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JK Marlow jkm060928_128
September York County SC
Utility right-of-way
Whitish corollas with green veins and suffused with violet, per Gentians of the Eastern US.
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JK Marlow jkm060928_129
September York County SC
Utility right-of-way
One of only 3 Gentiana species with predominantly white corollas, per Gentians of the Eastern US.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_115
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Corolla varies from green to yellowish-white, with tints of blue-purple, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm081025_008
October Greenville County SC
Utility right-of-way
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Keith Bradley kab_gentiana_villosa_4723
October Richmond County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_gentiana_villosa_4
October
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JK Marlow jkm0311b_02
November Pickens County SC
Churchyard or cemetery
Calyx lobes linear to oblanceolate, 5-35mm long by 0.5-12mm wide, per Gentians of the Eastern US.
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JK Marlow jkm181104_5586
November Oconee County SC
Unlike blue-flowering gentians, lower leaves decidedly wider above middle, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm181104_5587
November Oconee County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-02-004:
Gentiana villosa
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Dasystephana villosa
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon
Look for it in upland forests, sandhill/pocosin ecotones, 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
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish-white/ Greenish
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!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p228
- Gentians of the Eastern US p114
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p132
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p254
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p427
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p152
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p148
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p197
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p186
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p221
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p124
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p211