Gentianopsis crinita (Fringed Gentian) - photos and description
General: Annual or biennial plant with an upright growth habit. Plants often branching, stems glabrous.
Flowers: Flowers terminal on long peduncles, up to 5 cm long, purple-blue in colour, petal edges fringed.
Leaves: Leaves all cauline, opposite, stalkless, lanceolate, glabrous, measured to 6.5 cm long and 1 cm wide.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, we've measured these plants growing to 70 cm tall.
Habitat: Sunny locations in grassy bogs, fens and marshes.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
Synonym: Listed in some of the field guides we use as Gentianella crinita, Gentianopsis macounii.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos August 7th and August 24th, in a grassy, wet ditch, about 450 km northeast of our home in Regina, SK.