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Gentiana affinis

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Authors: Griseb.  

Botanical Description

ex Hook. Tufted, usually with a few ascending stems only, 20-30cm or more tall.

Leaves lanceolate to oblong-ovate 1.5-3cm long. Flowers to 3cm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, with small lobes, blue or purple-blue, solitary or in quite dense racemose clusters, summer. North America, Rocky Mountains to Minnesota, in damp places.