Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Frasera > Frasera fastigiata

Frasera fastigiata (clustered green gentian)

Synonyms: Frasera carolinensis (heterotypic); Frasera thyrsiflora; Frasera umpquaensis; Swertia fastigiata (homotypic); Swertia umpquaensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Frasera fastigiata (syn. Swertia fastigiata) is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common name clustered green gentian. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it grows in meadows and other mountain habitat. It is a perennial herb producing a single stem which grows erect and often exceeds a meter in height. The basal leaves have oval or spoon-shaped blades up to 30 centimeters long by 10 wide. Leaves higher on the stem may be smaller and narrower. Some of the leaves have white margins. The inflorescence is a dense panicle atop the stem, sometimes interrupted into a series of clusters of flowers. Each flower has a corolla of four pointed lobes each roughly a centimeter long. They are greenish, often tinged with yellow or blue. There are four stame
View Wikipedia Record: Frasera fastigiata

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[2]
Polistes fuscatus (Paper wasp)[2]
Thorybes pylades (Northern cloudywing skipper)[2]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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