Gentiana nivalis L.

GENTIANACEAE

- Gentian family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Gentiana nivalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 229 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Snow gentian

English name: alpine gentian

Italian name: Genziana delle nevi

German name: Schnee-Enzian

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Calathiana nivalis (L.) Delarbre

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Gentianales
Family: Gentianaceae
Genus: Gentiana
Species:

Page counter: 580 ( AVG: 221.16 / 219.883 )

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Gentiana nivalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vigo di Cadore, Casera Razzo, nei pressi della Malga., BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Gentiana nivalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Comeglians, pendici del Monte Crostis., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Gentiana nivalis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Gentiana nivalis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Angelo Mazzoni

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Angelo Mazzoni

Gentiana nivalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Gentiana nivalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Gentiana nivalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Gressoney La Trinité, pendici del Monte Rosa nei pressi del lago Gabiet., AO, Valle d'Aosta, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Links:
- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
CAN (LB, QC), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Gentiana nivalis L.
Map for Gentiana nivalis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Gentiana parryi Engelm. [244]
2) Gentiana pennelliana Fernald [268]
3) Gentiana platypetala Griseb. [246]
4) Gentiana propinqua Richardson ssp. arctophila (Griseb.) Hultén [171]
5) Gentiana prostrata Haenke var. americana Engelm. [87]
6) Gentiana saponaria L. var. saponaria [281]
7) Gentiana verna L. [excluded] [2707]
8) Gentianella amarella (L.) Böerner [290]
9) Gentianopsis virgata (Raf.) Holub ssp. victorinii (Fernald) Lammers [225]
10) Geranium californicum G.N. Jones & F.F. Jones [222]

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