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The herbaceous perennial plant Gentiana calycosa is a species of gentian known by the common name Rainier pleated gentian. It is native to the mid-elevation mountains of the western United States and Canada from the Sierra Nevada of California to the Canadian Cascades. The flower is a funnel-shaped cup opening into a five-petaled face 3 to 5 centimeters wide, in shades of deep blue to purple. The plant has hardy, thick green leaves on the thin red stems from which the flowers are borne. Like other gentians, G. calycosa is an attractive mountain wildflower good for use in alpine gardens.
Perennial herb
7 in Tall
Mounding
Fast
Blue, Purple
Summer
Deep Shade, Partial Shade
Prefers loamy or clay soils. Grows poorly in sandy soils.
For propagating by seed: 4 mos. stratification.
1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17
Wet meadows, slopes
Lodgepole Forest, Red Fir Forest, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 2 likely
Sierra Sulphur
Colias behrii
Mountain Beauty Moth
Syngrapha ignea