| Gentiana propinqua Richards. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gentianella propinqua subsp. propinqua, Gentiana rurikiana Cham. & Schlecht. | ||
| Description | Glabrous; plant with numerous slender, basal flower-bearing branches, shorter than stem; rosette leaves oblong to lanceolate-ovate; stem leaves in remote pairs; lower flowers long-pedicellated; calyx lobes very unequal, the broader ovate to oblong, foliaceous; corolla lobes blue (rarely white), bristle-tipped, lacking crown at base, the tube greenish-blue; capsule sessile. | ||
| Ecology | Forests and dry mountain slopes. Described from northwest North America. |
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.