| Gentiana platypetala Griseb. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gentiana covillei Nels. & Macbr., Gentiana gormani How. | ||
| Description | Stems from long, thick, horizontal to oblique caudex; rosette leaves lacking; stem leaves in several pairs, ovate to elliptic, obtuse, sessile; flowers mostly solitary, sessile, up to 35 mm long; calyx lobes growing together, forming 2 broadly ovate lobes, acute to mucronate, or with 2-3 acute lobes at apex, purplish; corolla blue, paler at base, with reniform, overlapping, mucronate lobes, greenish- to reddish- spotted on inside. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy slopes in the mountains to at least 800 meters. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.