Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gentiana autumnalis
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Pinebarren Gentian at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Check out Jim Fowler's blog describing an October trip to NC's Green Swamp with Carolina Grass-of-Parnassus, Slender Rattlesnake-root, Long-lipped Ladies’-tresses orchid, and Pine Barren Gentian in glorious bloom.
Its electric blue color is striking to see in the wild. Feast your eyes on photographs of the southeastern Gentians in Jim Fowler's blog.
G. autumnalis is often overlooked, since it is very inconspicuous except when in flower, it usually flowers at a season when few botanists are about, and sterile plants greatly outnumber fertile ones. Vegetatively it is extremely distinctive once learned; the leaves are glossy, dark-green, opposite, oblanceolate to ‘oblinear’, and twisted and curved in a manner reminiscent of an airplane propeller, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana autumnalis
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-02-003:
Gentiana autumnalis FAMILY Gentianaceae
COMMON NAME:
Pinebarren Gentian, Autumn Gentian
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gentiana autumnalis
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gentiana autumnalis
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-02-003:
Gentiana autumnalis
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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