| Family | GENTIANACEAE |
| Genus species | Gentiana algida Pall. sect. Frigidae |
| Bibliography | Fl. Ross. 1(2): 107 (1789) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Himalaya and Japan, Alaska to wc. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| 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 |
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| 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 | Ciminalis algida (Pall.) Bercht. & C. Presl Dasystephana algida (Pall.) Borckh. Dasystephana romanzovii (Ledeb. ex Bunge) Rydb. Gentiana algida f. igarashii (Miyabe & Kudo ex Nishida) Toyok. Gentiana algida var. igarashii Miyabe & Kudo ex Nishida Gentiana algida var. romanzovii (Bunge) Kusn. Gentiana algida var. sibirica Turcz. Gentiana crandallii Gand. Gentiana frigida var. algida (Pall.) Froel. Gentiana igarashii (Miyabe & Kudo) Miyabe & Kudo Gentiana romazovii Ledeb. ex Bunge Gentiana romanzovii f. hexaloba A.Roach Gentianodes algida (Pall.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Pneumonanthe algida (Pall.) F.W.Schmidt. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, MNT Montana, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |