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Gentiana villosa
Gentiana villosa, the striped gentian, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the genus Gentiana. It is found mainly in the Eastern United States and is used medicinally by Native American tribes.
Gentiana villosa is found mainly in pine barrens and open woodland regions of eighteen states in the East coast regions of the United States and spanning out to the mid-east regions of the United States. The states that G. villosa can be found in are AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV. Of these eighteen states four of them IN, PA, OH, and MD have listed G. villosa as an endangered species.
As the common name Sampson's snakeroot indicates, G. villosa is thought to aid in the relief of snakebites. In Appalachia the roots of G. villosa are carried as a charm. The Catawba Indians used the boiled roots as medicine to relieve back pain.
Gentian · Plain gentian · Southern Gentian · Closed bottle gentian · Willow Gentian · Appalachian gentian · Pine barren gentian · Baeuerlen's Gentian · Gentiana bavarica · Gentiana bredboensis · Rainier pleated gentian · Elliott's gentian
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gentiana villosa 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.
