''Frasera'', the green gentians, is a genus in the
gentian family, native to North America and named for
John Fraser John Fraser may refer to:
Politics
*John Simon Frederick Fraser (1765–1803), commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was (M.P.) for Inverness-shire
*John James Fraser (1829–1896), 5th Premier of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, 18 ...
, a Scottish botanist and colleague of Thomas Walter.
[The Frasera (Walter, 1795) were named for John Fraser. (Linn. 4-Tetrandria, i-Moniogynia, allied to Chironia.) ''See'', Card, H.H.]
A revision of Genus Frasera
''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'', April 1931, 18(2):245-282 at 245. Accessed 2 August 2012. ''And ref'' Johnson, George William, Johnson's Gardeners' dictionary and cultural instructor, London, A. T. De La Mare printing and publishing co., Ltd., 1916, p. 361. . Accessed 2 August 2012.
Taxonomy
Historically, ''Frasera'' has sometimes been considered part of ''
Swertia'', but molecular analysis of a number of ''Frasera'' species has shown them to form a
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
clade separate from the rest of ''Swertia''.
Species
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Frasera ackermaniae''
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Frasera albicaulis''
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Frasera albomarginata''
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Frasera caroliniensis
''Frasera caroliniensis'', commonly known as American columbo or yellow gentian, is a herbaceous perennial of the gentian family Gentianaceae found in the deciduous forest of Southern Ontario and throughout the eastern and southeastern United St ...
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Frasera coloradensis''
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Frasera fastigiata
''Frasera fastigiata'' (syn. ''Swertia fastigiata'') is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common name clustered green gentian. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it grows in meadows and other moun ...
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Frasera gypsicola''
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Frasera montana''
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Frasera neglecta''
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Frasera puberulenta''
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Frasera pahutensis
''Frasera'', the green gentians, is a genus in the Gentianaceae, gentian family, native to North America and named for John Fraser (botanist), John Fraser, a Scottish botanist and colleague of Thomas Walter.The Frasera (Walter, 1795) were named f ...
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Frasera paniculata''
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Frasera parryi''
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Frasera speciosa
''Frasera speciosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family (Gentianaceae) known by the common names elkweed, deer's ears, and monument plant.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2013, p. 196
Description
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Frasera tubulosa''
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Frasera umpquaensis''
References
Flora of Northern America
Gentianaceae genera
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