Gentiana saponaria L.

WIEGAND HERBARIUM OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Embayed Coastal Plain	Alt. 78 ft.
No. 5697	Nottoway River Basin
Gentiana saponaria L.
Flowers gentian blue, occasionally violet.
Filaments adnate to corolla for 1/2 length.
Calyx lobes erect or slightly divergent.
Corolla blue or purplish, sometimes both
colors on same plants. Leaves limp.
Corolla open at apex, but lobes not
spreading.
VIRGINIA, Southampton County, ditch beside
railroad, edge of woods of Pinus taeda &
Quercus, 1/2 mile west of Adams Grove.
Coll. R. T. Clausen	25 Oct. 19^-1
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