Family: Gentianaceae
Scientific Name: Gentiana cruciata Blue Cross
Common Name: Blue Cross Gentian, Star Gentian
Description | A rather easy to grow Gentian. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
Hardiness Zone | 3-7 |
Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, part sun |
Moisture | average, moist, tolerates dry |
Soil & Site | average, moist, likes acidic |
Flowers | blue |
Fruit | fused petals become a papery wrapping for a 1-inch capsule, seeds wrapped in papery wing,seeds dispersed by gravity (barochory) |
Leaves | green, spoon shaped, meet at angles and form a cross hence the common name Blue Cross |
Dimensions | division in the spring |
Propagation | division in the spring |
Cultivar Origin | Jelitto Seeds Germany, 2009 |
Misc Facts | The species name honors Henry Andrews, a 19th century artist. |
Notes & Reference | Jelitto Seeds web site |
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