Gentian family
Gentianiaceae
You-sto’ma. A small genus of North American prairie herbs, the species below cultivated in the garden.
Description
Leaves opposite, ovalish, sometimes stem-clasping. Flowers solitary or in clusters, corolla with 5-6 lobes.
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Gentian family
Gentianaceae
Sen-tor’ree-um. A genus made up of about 30 herbs, most of them annual or biennial, widely distributed, mostly throughout the northern hemisphere.
Description
Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers pale pink to rose or red, in clusters.
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Gentian family
Gentianiaceae
Ecks’a-kum. A genus of 20 species of herbs or subshrubs from the Old World tropics, the species below grown for ornament.
Description
Leaves opposite, mostly stalkless or very short-stalked, without marginal teeth. Flowers mildly fragrant, in forked cymes, the calyx 4- to 5-parted. Corolla more or less twisted, its lobes usually 5 and blunt or pointed. Stamens 4-5, attached to the throat of the corolla.
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Gentian family
Gentianaceae
Sab-bay’she-a. American Centaury ; Sea Pink ; Rose Pink . A genus of 17 species of mostly weak herbs found in e. North America and occasionally cultivated.
Description
Erect, branching herbs with opposite, stalkless leaves, usually ovate but linear in some species. Flowers in clusters at ends of branches.
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