| Family | GENTIANACEAE |
| Genus species | Swertia obtusa Ledeb. |
| Bibliography | Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 5: 526 (1815) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Xinjiang |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Description | basal leaves suborbiculate, stem leaves alternate, lanceolate, flowers in terminal dense head, petals lanceolate, acuminate |
| Size | 10-40cm |
| Color | violet |
| Bloom | late summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Swertia baicalensis Popov ex Pissjauk. Swertia obtusa var. stenopetala Regel & Tiling Swertia perennis var. alternifolia Cham. & Schltdl. Swertia perennis ssp. obtusa (Ledeb.) H.Hara Swertia perennis var. obtusa (Ledeb.) Griseb. Swertia perennis ssp. stenopetala (Regel & Tiling) Vorosch. Swertia stenopetala (Regel & Tiling) Pissjauk. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |