''Gentianopsis crinita'' (sometimes called greater fringed gentian or blue gentian) is a
biennial herbaceous
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species, native to eastern USA and eastern Canada. The flowers of fringed gentian open on sunny days, but generally remain closed on cloudy days. Individual plants live for only one or two years; the plant is noted as having become relatively rare.
[ It grows in moist, limey woods, meadows, and stream banks.
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s approximately in height. Each finely fringed petal is in length. The outermost flower parts are two pairs of green sepals, strongly winged and flared on the basal margins, the outer pair much larger than the inner.
It is closely related to '' Gentianopsis virgata'' (Raf.) Holub
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, which is sometimes lumped within a broadly transcribed ''G. crinita''.
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crinita
''Crinita'' is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae
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Flora of Northern America
Taxa named by Josef Aloys Frölich
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