Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains
35. Gentianaceae, the Gentian Family
2. Gentianopsis Ma -- Fringed Gentian1. Gentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma
Plants erect, 1-5 dm tall, usually branched above. Basal leaves, when persistent, smaller than the cauline leaves, spatulate to oblanceolate; cauline leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm wide, 2-5X longer than wide, acute at the tip, rounded to subcordate at the base, usually clasping. Flowers 3.5-6 cm long; calyx tube funnelform, 12-20 mm long, the broader pair of lobes oblong to ovate, hyaline-margined, the narrower pair usually longer and lance-attenuate; corolla funnelform to campanulate, the lobes fringed across the tip (and often down the sides) with linear fringe-segments 2-6 mm long. Aug--Sep. Wet meadows, stream banks, wet woods and boggy places; rare and barely entering our range in e ND and e SD; (ME to Man., s to MD, NC, OH, IA and SD). Gentiana crinita Froel.
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