Any of several species, mostly perennials, found almost everywhere, except for Africa; many are low-growing alpines; leaves opposite, entire; flowers usually several cm long, funnel- or bell-shaped, with often long tubes and five spreading lobes, usually deep blue, but also white, yellow, or red. (Genus: Gentiana, 400 species. Family: Gentianaceae.)
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Stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis)
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Division:
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Magnoliophyta
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Class:
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Magnoliopsida
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Order:
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Gentianales
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Family:
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Gentianaceae
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Genus:
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Gentiana L.
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Species
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See text. Gentian is also used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink "Moxie" which contains "Gentian Root Extractives".
Species
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Gentiana acaulis ('Stemless Gentian') Gentiana affinis ('Pleated Gentian') Gentiana alba ('Plain Gentian') Gentiana algida ('Whitish Gentian') Gentiana
alpina ('Alpine Gentian') Gentiana altaica ('Altai Gentian') Gentiana amoena Gentiana andrewsii ('Closed bottle Gentian') Gentiana angustifolia
Gentiana asclepiadea ('Willow Gentian') Gentiana austromontana ('Appalachian Gentian') Gentiana autumnalis ('Pinebarren Gentian') Gentiana bavarica
('Bavarian Gentian') Gentiana bellidifolia Gentiana boryi Gentiana brachyphylla Gentiana bulleyana Gentiana burseri Gentiana cachemirica
Gentiana calycosa ('Rainier Pleated Gentian') Gentiana catesbaei ('Elliott's Gentian') Gentiana cephalantha Gentiana cerina Gentiana clausa
('Bottled Gentian') Gentiana clusii ('Trumpet Gentian') Gentiana crassicaulis Gentiana crinita ('Fringed Gentian') Gentiana cruciata ('Cross Gentian')
Gentiana dahurica Gentiana decora ('Showy Gentian') Gentiana decumbens Gentiana dendrologii Gentiana depressa Gentiana dinarica Gentiana
douglasiana ('Swamp Gentian') Gentiana elwesii Gentiana farreri Gentiana fetisowii Gentiana flavida ('Pale Gentian') Gentiana freyniana
Gentiana frigida Gentiana froelichii Gentiana fremontii ('Moss Gentian') Gentiana gelida Gentiana gilvo-striata Gentiana glauca ('Pale
Gentian') Gentiana gracilipes Gentiana grombczewskii Gentiana heterosepala ('Autumn Gentian') Gentiana hexaphylla Gentiana kesselringii Gentiana
kurroo Gentiana lawrencii Gentiana lhassica Gentiana linearis ('Narrowleaf Gentian') Gentiana loderi Gentiana lutea ('Great Yellow Gentian')
Gentiana macrophylla ('Bigleaf Gentian') Gentiana makinoi Gentiana microdonta Gentiana newberryi ('Newberry's Gentian') Gentiana nipponica
Gentiana nivalis ('Snow Gentian')
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Gentiana nubigena Gentiana nutans ('Tundra Gentian') Gentiana ochroleuca Gentiana olivieri Gentiana ornata Gentiana pannonica ('Brown
Gentian') Gentiana paradoxa Gentiana parryi ('Parry's Gentian') Gentiana patula Gentiana pennelliana ('Wiregrass Gentian') Gentiana phyllocalyx
Gentiana platypetala ('Broadpetal Gentian') Gentiana plurisetosa ('Bristly Gentian') Gentiana pneumonanthe ('Marsh Gentian') Gentiana prolata Gentiana
prostrata ('Pygmy Gentian') Gentiana przewalskii Gentiana pterocalyx Gentiana puberulenta ('Downy Gentian') Gentiana pumila Gentiana punctata
('Spotted Gentian') Gentiana purpurea ('Purple Gentian') Gentiana pyrenaica Gentiana quadrifolia Gentiana rigescens Gentiana rostanii Gentiana
rubricaulis ('Closed Gentian') Gentiana saponaria ('Harvestbells Gentian') Gentiana saxosa Gentiana scabra Gentiana scarlatina Gentiana sceptrum
('King's scepter Gentian') Gentiana septemfida ('Crested Gentian') Gentiana setigera ('Mendocino Gentian') Gentiana setulifolia Gentiana sikkimensis
Gentiana sikokiana Gentiana sino-ornata Gentiana siphonantha Gentiana speciosa Gentiana squarrosa Gentiana stictantha Gentiana
stragulata Gentiana straminea Gentiana tenuifolia Gentiana terglouensis ('Triglav Gentian') Gentiana ternifolia Gentiana tianshanica ('Tienshan
Gentian') Gentiana trichotoma Gentiana triflora Gentiana trinervis Gentiana tubiflora Gentiana utriculosa ('Bladder Gentian') Gentiana
veitchiorum Gentiana venusta Gentiana verna ('Spring Gentian') Gentiana villosa ('Striped Gentian') Gentiana waltonii Gentiana wutaiensis
Gentiana yakushimensis Gentiana zollingeri
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