Scientific Name
Gentian quinquefolia
Common Name
Stiff gentian; Gall-of-the-earth
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Annual
Height:
6 to 30 inches
Flower/fruit:
Violet to white funnel-shaped flowers in multiple tight clusters; dozens of tubular, .5 to 1 inch flowers; five bristly-tipped lobes
Flowering Season:
Late summer into fall
Foliage:
Opposite, sessile leaves; stem is branched and winged; appears to be four-sided
Site:
Roadsides, wet fields, bogs, wet woods
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