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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: t5247rb on August 18, 2007, 08:27:47 PM

Title: Trying to Identify this Gentian
Post by: t5247rb on August 18, 2007, 08:27:47 PM

Found this on July 14, in the Tirol Alps at 2122meters.  The flowers seem too small for Bavarian Gentian.

Title: Re: Trying to Identify this Gentian
Post by: Heather Smith on August 18, 2007, 11:32:45 PM

G. tergluoensis is my best guess. The leaves look like it and the height and place agree. I have seen this and it does resemble what I saw.

The flowers seem too big for G. nivalis and the leaves are wrong.

Title: Re: Trying to Identify this Gentian
Post by: ranunculus on August 19, 2007, 12:03:32 AM

Totally agree with you Heather.

Title: Re: Trying to Identify this Gentian
Post by: t5247rb on August 19, 2007, 11:05:41 AM

In the other on-line photos I've seen of Gentiana terglouensis it seems to grow very close to the ground. http://flora.nhm-wien.ac.at/Seiten-Arten/Gentiana-terglouensis.htm (http://flora.nhm-wien.ac.at/Seiten-Arten/Gentiana-terglouensis.htm)

However, in the speciman I photographed there is a definate stem of a few cm.  Is this significant?

Title: Re: Trying to Identify this Gentian
Post by: Heather Smith on August 19, 2007, 06:08:01 PM

That partly depends on exactly where it is growing - average of perhaps 2cm but lower in different growing conditions. In the wild many plants are surprisingly variable. Howver my only other guess is G pumila but I can't see the stem leaves well enough.

or another species that I don't know (and there are plenty of those!!)