Gentiana calycosa
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Gentiana calycosa | |
---|---|
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Gentianaceae |
Genus: | Gentiana |
Species: | G. calycosa
|
Binomial name | |
Gentiana calycosa |
The herbaceous perennial plant Gentiana calycosa is a species of gentian known by the common names Rainier pleated gentian and mountain bog gentian.
Distribution
It is native to the mid-elevation mountains of the western United States and Canada from the Sierra Nevada of California to the Canadian Cascades.
Description
The flower of Gentiana calycosa is a funnel-shaped cup opening into a five-petaled face 3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 in) wide, in shades of deep blue to purple. The plant has hardy, thick green leaves on the thin red stems from which the flowers are borne.
Like other gentians, G. calycosa is an attractive mountain wildflower good for use in alpine gardens.
External links
Media related to Gentiana calycosa at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Gentiana calycosa at Wikispecies
- Jepson Manual Treatment
- Photo galleryError: "Q3007193" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Articles lacking sources from March 2021
- All articles lacking sources
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- Taxonbars desynced from Wikidata
- Taxonbar pages requiring a Wikidata item
- Taxonbars with invalid from parameters
- Taxonbars without secondary Wikidata taxon IDs
- Gentiana
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
- All stub articles
- Gentianales stubs