A compact, long-blooming rock garden plant for acid soil. It is not a ground cover. The trumpet-shaped flowers are a strong royal blue wi...Read Moreth white stripes.
This is a Berrybank Hybrid, raised in 1999-2003 by Ian McNaughton of Macplants in East Lothian near Edinburgh in Scotland. The parents are not known but may include G. veitchorum and G. hexaphylla.
Gentian named after King Gentius of Illyria in the Adriatic. He discovered medicinal uses for gentians around 180 B.C. Iroquois used Bot...Read Moretle gentian to ease pain from headaches and muscle aches, to cure lonesomeness and craziness. Hanging dried root around the house warded off witches. Meskwaki cured snake bites and "caked breast" with the plant.
Most information regarding this plant originates from the UK. Gentiana andrewsii "Bottle gentian" is native to Wisconsin.
A compact, long-blooming rock garden plant for acid soil. It is not a ground cover. The trumpet-shaped flowers are a strong royal blue wi...Read More
Gentian named after King Gentius of Illyria in the Adriatic. He discovered medicinal uses for gentians around 180 B.C. Iroquois used Bot...Read More