Gentianella amarella (Northern Gentian) - photos and description
15 cm ruler
General: Annual plants with an upright, narrow growth habit. Plants glabrous.
Flowers: Numerous tubular flowers from upper leaf axils. Flower colour varies from purple to greenish-white. Flower size 1 cm in length and 7 mm diameter.
Leaves: Leaves are opposite, oblanceolate, acute tipped, and sessile. We measured a leaf at 4 cm long and 17 mm wide.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, the plants in the top photo were 60 cm tall.
Habitat: Moist prairie, edges of woods, roadside ditches.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
Synonym: Listed in some of the field guides we use as Gentiana amarella.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos on July 30th and August 6th, edges of aspen woods, 20 km east of our home in Regina, SK.