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Gentianella antarctica

Gentianella antarctica
Photo: georgiasteel, CC0

Gentianella antarctica is a perennial gentian, a giant herb endemic to Campbell Island in the New Zealand subantarctic. It is a wild species of a cold, windswept island and is not a common garden plant.

Family
Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Grows as
Perennial
Temperature
Subantarctic climate; cold-hardy in its native range but not documented for cultivation
Native range
Antipodean Is. (Campell I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Gentianella antarctica is a species of giant herb from Campbell Island, New Zealand, where it is endemic.

Where it grows

Gentianella antarctica is known exclusively from Campbell Island.

Other Gentianella plants

Chionogentias diemensis · Gentianella alborosea · Autumn dwarf gentian · Gentianella androsacea · Early Gentian · Golden dwarfgentian · Barrington Snow Gentian · Common New Zealand Gentian · Field gentian · Auckland Island Gentian · Gentianella cernua · Enderby Island Gentian

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gentianella antarctica 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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