gentian
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Any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis (synset 112314240)
is a type of: flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomssubtypes:
- gentiana acaulis, gentianella - low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers
- blind gentian, bottle gentian, closed gentian, gentiana andrewsii - gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
- explorer's gentian, gentiana calycosa - tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
- blind gentian, closed gentian, gentiana clausa - similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
- gentiana lutea, great yellow gentian - robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
- calathian violet, gentiana pneumonanthe, marsh gentian - perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
- gentiana saponaria, soapwort gentian - erect perennial of wet woodlands of North America having leaves and flower buds resembling those of soapwort
- gentiana villosa, striped gentian - a perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America
- ague weed, agueweed, five-flowered gentian, gentiana quinquefolia, gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian - gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers
- felwort, gentianella amarella - gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas
- fringed gentian - any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana
- spurred gentian - any of various plants of the genus Halenia having flowers with spurred lobes
belongs to: family gentianaceae, gentian family, gentianaceae - chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals
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