''Gentianopsis crinita'' (sometimes called greater fringed gentian or blue gentian) is a
biennial
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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.
In autumn, solitary, iridescent blue flowers develop on naked peduncles 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
''Gentianopsis virgata'', commonly known as lesser fringed gentian, narrow-leaved fringed gentian, or smaller fringed gentian, is a biennial herbaceous species of plant, native to eastern USA and eastern Canada.
Taxonomy
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'' (Raf.) Holub
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, which is sometimes lumped within a broadly transcribed ''G. crinita''.Pliny
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, King Gentius
Gentius ( grc, Γένθιος, "Génthios"; 181168 BC) was an Illyrian king who belonged to the Labeatan dynasty. He ruled in 181–168 BC, being the last attested Illyrian king. He was the son of Pleuratus III, a king who kept positive relati ...
of Illyria found that the roots were useful as an emetic, cathartic, and tonic. From him, the plant's name is derived.
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crinita
''Crinita'' is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 1 ...
Flora of Northern America
Taxa named by Josef Aloys Frölich
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