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Gentiana nivalis
It grows to a height of 3-15 cm. Corolla is wheel-shaped, sky-blue, 15 mm long, fused, 5-lobed, with long and narrow tube; throat lacking fringe, small tooth-like appendage between lobes. Flowers solitary, terminating branches. Leaves are opposite, stalkless. Basal leaf blades broadly elliptic, with entire margin, parallel-veined, stem leaves narrowly ovate–elliptic.
mountain meadow, 1900 m/asl
Spotted on Aug 9, 2013
Submitted on Aug 16, 2013
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