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Wingecarribee Gentian

Gentiana wingecarribiensis

Wingecarribee Gentian is a small, short-lived annual herb from peat swamps and swamp margins in the NSW Southern Highlands, known from only two locations. It grows best in cool, moist, sunny conditions similar to its wet native habitat.

Family
Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, as in its native peatland swamps.
Soil
Moist, peaty or humus-rich soil that holds water well.
Temperature
Cool to mild temperatures; flowers open with sunshine and warmth, and it is adapted to temperate highland conditions.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales (C. Tablelands)
Climate
temperate

About

Gentiana wingecarribiensis is a flowering plant in the family Gentianaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, upright or decumbent annual herb with blue to mauve flowers.

Where it grows

This gentiana is only known from two locations in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, it grows in peatland swamps, grasslands and swamp margins.

Other Gentiana plants

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 wingecarribiensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

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