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Gentianella germanica
Chiltern gentian is a small European wildflower with red-violet funnel-shaped flowers, usually a biennial that forms a rosette in year one and flowers in year two. It grows best in fairly moist, nutrient-poor calcareous grassland soils.
Gentianella germanica, commonly known as German gentian, is a species of dwarf gentian from Europe. It grows primarily in grasslands with calcareous soils in primarily in Central Europe, northern France, and the Low Countries, but with a small population in the United Kingdom. In the UK it is also known as the Chiltern gentian and it grows in the Chiltern Hills of southern England. It is a small, usually biennial plant with large five petaled red-violet flowers.
Gentianella germanica is native to Western and Central Europe from south-central England to the Czech Republic. It is most common in northern France and locally common in the Chiltern Hills to northern Hampshire in England. In the low countries of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg it grows largely away from the coasts. In Germany it is quite widespread largely in southern states such as Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland, but can also be found in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia to the north and east. It is also native to Switzerland and mountainous areas of the Czech Republic and Poland, but records to the southeast may be Gentianella rhaetica according to the botanist Michael Hassler. According to the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation it is also native to mountainous areas of northern Italy, all but the eastern parts of Austria, and a small area of northern Slovenia.
Chionogentias diemensis · Gentianella alborosea · Autumn dwarf gentian · Gentianella androsacea · Early Gentian · Gentianella antarctica · Golden dwarfgentian · Barrington Snow Gentian · Common New Zealand Gentian · Field gentian · Auckland Island Gentian · Gentianella cernua
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gentianella germanica 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.
