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COMMON NAME
Parry's Gentian
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Gentiana parryi
Plant family
Gentian (Gentianaceae)
Plant group
Wildflowers and Herbs
Perennial plant with intensely blue/purple tubular flowers in groups of 1-5.
Identification hints
Often found in meadows, easy to spot through the grasses with its intense blue color. Typically growing up to 1-3 feet tall in the rich soils of alpine meadow.
Did you know?
Sunshine opens the flowers of Gentiana parryi; on cloudy days the flowers will close.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Colorado
,
New Mexico
,
Utah
,
Wyoming
HABITAT
Common in moist alpine and subalpine meadows and streambanks, 7500-13,200 ft,.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Leaves thick, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or ovate, 2-4cm long
Flowers
Flowers 5-merous; calyx tube 10-18 mm long, lobes 1-8 mm long; corolla 33-50 mm long, broadly tubular-funnelform or campanulate, blue, sometimes streaked with green. Slightly toothed projections between petals.
Bloom Time
July-Sept.
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