Frasera parryi (Parry's Green Gentian)

 7/12/09 Yellow Pine Nature Trail, Idyllwild County Park,

San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, CA

7/12/09 Yellow Pine Nature Trail, Idyllwild

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Parry's Green Gentian

SPECIES: Frasera parryi

FAMILY: Gentianaceae (Gentian Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 7/12/2009

LOCATION: Yellow Pine Nature Trail, Idyllwild County Park, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, CA

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From Jepson e-Flora Taxon Page:

Habit: Plant 6--16 dm, glabrous. 

Stem: 1 or 2. 

Leaf: white-margined; basal 5--25 cm, 8--40 mm wide, strap-shaped to elliptic-oblanceolate, tips acute; cauline opposite, ovate to lance-oblong, tips acute to acuminate. 

Inflorescence: open; pedicels 6--32 mm. 

Flower: calyx 8--17 mm; corolla 9--20 mm, light green, purple-dotted, lobes obovate, short-acuminate, ridge between stamens low, fringed, nectary pit 1 per lobe, U-shaped. 

Ecology: Dry, open woodland, chaparral; Elevation: 100--1900 m. 

Bioregional Distribution: SCo, SnGb, SnBr, PR; 

Distribution Outside California: Arizona, Baja California. 

Flowering Time: Apr--Jul 

Synonyms: Swertia parryi (Torr.) Kuntze

eFlora Treatment Author: Bruce G. Baldwin