Gentiana amarella subsp. aciita (Michx.) Hult.
 
FamilyGentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae
SynonymsGentianella acuta (Michx.) Hiitonen, Gentiana acuta Michx., Gentianella amarella subsp. acuta (Michx.) Gillett.
DescriptionStem single or branched, 20-40 cm tall, with ascending branches and 6-10 inter- nodes; radical leaves oblanceolate to spatulate-obovate, obtuse; cauline leaves acu- minate; calyx cleft nearly to base, with narrow, lanceolate, slightly uneven and acute lobes; corolla violet or lilac, rarely white, 1-1.5 cm long, fringed in throat, with oblong-lanceolate, acute or somewhat acute lobes; capsule sessile.
EcologyMoist places, meadows, along streams. G. amarella described from Europe, subsp. acuta from the Carolinas and Canada.
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notes
Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other taxa of the G. amarella complex.
Hultén's Flora About

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.