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Gentianella amarella (autumn dwarf gentian; autumn dwarf-gentian; autumn dwarfgentian; annual gentian)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gentianella amarella (the autumn gentian or autumn felwort) is a species of the genus Gentianella. It is a short biennial plant with elliptical to lanceolate leaves. The flowers are purplish bells between 12 and 22 mm long. It flowers between July and September. Its habitat is in grass, often on lime-rich soil (in England typically on chalk). It is found throughout Northern Europe.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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Predators

Aculus kerneri[4]
Clepsis senecionana (Rustic Tortrix)[5]
Dasineura gentianae[4]
Eupithecia subumbrata (shaded pug)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0