| Family | GENTIANACEAE |
| Genus species | Gentiana algida Pall. sect. Frigidae |
| Synonyms | Gentiana igarashii (Miyabe & Kudô) Miyabe & Kudô |
| Gentiana romanzovii Ledeb. ex Bunge | |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-4200m |
| Description | basal leaves linear-oblanceolate, stem leaves 3-5 pairs, oblong, connate, flowers pedicellate, tubular, outside with blue stripes, lobes short, acute |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | yellow, pale yellow-green |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Magadan ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan ) China (Tibet , Xinjiang ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (East Himalaya ) Indo-China (Myanmar ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska ) Western Canada (British Columbia ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Montana , Wyoming ) Southwestern U.S.A. (Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | GENTIANACEAE
algida purdomii (C.Marquand) T.N.Ho, Worldwide Monogr. Gentiana 223 (2001)
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