Gentiana affinis - Photos and Description

Saskatchewan's Wildflowers

 


15 cm ruler for scale

Growth habit prostrate to decumbent. Flowers are dark blue with white spots, tubular, grow in dense racemes, or on small plants there may be a single flower on the end of a stem. I measured flowers on the above plants to 2.5 cm long, and 2.5 cm wide, Leaves are oblong, opposite, I measured a leaf to at 2.5 cm long and 6 mm wide.

Found in sandy soils, moist meadows, and in the edges of aspen groves in southern Saskatchewan. Fairly common.

Height is listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm, I measured plants to 30 cm tall. However, I've seen them growing prostrate or only a few cm tall, in open country in the Great Sand Hills.

The above photos were taken August 9th and 13th in a sandy moist meadow, and in the edges of aspen woods at White Butte, near Regina, SK.

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