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Frasera speciosa
Frasera speciosa is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family (Gentianaceae) known by the common names elkweed, monument plant, and green gentian. When blooming it grows a tall stalk with numerous flowers that have purple dotted green petals. Each plant can flower just once before it dies.
Frasera speciosa grows throughout the western United States and into northern Mexico. It grows in the mountains of the Pacific Coast states of California and Oregon, and also grows in Yakima County, Washington. In the interior states it can be found in much of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. In the Rocky Mountains it grows in much of Idaho, western Montana, almost all of Wyoming, Colorado, and mostly in the northern parts of New Mexico. In the southern part of New Mexico it is only found in Grant County. It also grows in the Black Hills of South Dakota in three counties. The only part of Texas where it is recorded is Culberson County in the far west of the state. In Mexico it grows in four states, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, and Tamaulipas.
Ackerman's Frasera · Whitestem frasera · Desert frasera · American columbo · Colorado frasera · Clustered green gentian · Sunnyside frasera · Pine green gentian · Tufted frasera · Coahuila frasera · Inyo frasera · Kern frasera
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Frasera speciosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
