Gentianopsis detonsa
Gentianopsis virgata
serrate gentian, sheared gentian, western fringe gentian, windmill fringe gentian
gentianopsis élancé, lesser fringe gentian
branching diverse, often from base as well as distally.
except those of smallest plants with branches or peduncles arising from nodes distinctly above base, infrequently from base (subsp. macounii).
basal usually persistent and green at flowering, blades narrowly obovate to spatulate, oblanceolate, oblong, or linear (subsp. raupii) 0.5–3.5(–6) cm × 3–18 mm, apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes subacute or acute (subsp. detonsa), at least distal cauline blades oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, (0.5–)1.5–6.5 cm × 1–7(–15) mm, apex rounded to obtuse, or usually acute (subsp. detonsa).
basal usually withered by flowering, blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 0.8–6 cm × 1–18 mm, apex rounded to acute;
cauline blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.5–9 cm × 2–9(–12) mm, apex acute.
(0.3–)1–15 cm.
1–20 cm.
often 1 per primary stem, occasionally 2–5;
calyx 7–30 mm, keel smooth, all or at least inner lobes less than 1.5 times as long as tube, lobes ovate to narrowly lanceolate, varying with subspecies;
corolla pale to deep blue or occasionally pale yellow or white, 12–50 mm, lobes oblong, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-triangular, oblong-orbiculate, or proximally oblong, distally obovate to suborbiculate, varying with subspecies, 5–20 × 4–12(–15) mm, margins proximally fringed or merely erose to dentate, distally dentate;
ovary ± short-stipitate.
1–many;
calyx 12–60 mm, keels usually minutely granular-scabridulous to strongly papillate-scabridulous proximally, sometimes smooth, all or at least inner lobes less than 1.5 times as long as tube, outer lobes linear-lanceolate, apices acuminate to attenuate, inner lobes lance-ovate to ovate, apices acute to acuminate;
corolla deep blue or rarely pale blue, rose-violet, white, or pale yellow, 18–60(–75) mm, lobes oblong-obovate to ovate-elliptic or orbiculate, 10–30 × 3–18 mm, margins proximally fringed, distally dentate or erose, or sometimes entire (subsp. victorinii), apex rounded;
ovary subsessile to long-stipitate.
papillate, not winged.
papillate, not winged.
Gentianopsis detonsa
Gentianopsis virgata
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
References to Gentianopsis detonsa in the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico have been based on circumscriptions of the species that included G. thermalis. Specimens formerly so identified from Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario south of the James Bay region are G. virgata subsp. virgata. Those from Minnesota are G. virgata subsp. macounii.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Margins of corolla lobes dentate or erose, not fringed; halophytes of northern seacoasts (including Mackenzie Delta). | → 2 |
2. Basal leaf blades oblanceolate, apex obtuse to acute; cauline leaf blades (if present) linear, apex usually acute; corolla lobes 0.5+ times as long as tube; seed coat papillate only toward ends. | subsp. detonsa |
2. Leaf blades obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate or distal cauline leaf blades (if present) elliptic to lanceolate, apex rounded or obtuse; corolla lobes to 0.5 times as long as tube; seed coat completely papillate. | subsp. nesophila |
1. Margins of most corolla lobes fringed proximally, dentate toward apex; plants of the interior, approaching Arctic coast only in Mackenzie Delta (subsp. raupii). | → 3 |
3. Distinct rosette of basal leaves present at flowering, separated from cauline leaf blades; corolla lobes acute apically. | subsp. yukonensis |
3. Basal leaves generally persistent but rosette not well developed, transitional to cauline leaves; corolla lobes rounded apically. | subsp. raupii |
1. Calyx keels usually strongly papillate-scabridulous, occasionally minutely or obscurely so or smooth; corolla lobes with lateral fringes usually 2–6 mm. | subsp. virgata |
1. Calyx keels minutely granular-scabridulous near base or nearly smooth; corolla lobes with sparse lateral fringes to 2 mm or merely erose, dentate to serrate, or entire or nearly so. | → 2 |
2. Corolla lobes deeply dentate or serrate toward apex, teeth mostly 1+ mm; ovary at flowering with slender gynophore ± as long as body; estuary of St. Lawrence River, Quebec. | subsp. victorinii |
2. Corolla lobes erose or shallowly dentate toward apex, teeth mostly less than 1 mm; ovary at flowering subsessile or with a thick gynophore much shorter than body; widely distributed in c, w North America, disjunct on Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. | subsp. macounii |
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