Tulip Gentian is native to the warmer reagions of North America, and is
found in the prairie
grasslands from Colorado to Nebraska and down to Texas. It grows to about
15-inches-tall used and has a spectacular blue-green foliage. Tulip Gentian
has wonderful flowers which are either simple or double, and blue to
rose-red depending on the variety. The flowers usually are blue color but
the well-bred varieties come in blue, lavender, and various shades of pink,
white, white with a purple center and white with a pink or lavender rim.
Some flowers have doubled petals and look much like roses. The leaf is
ovate, simple and arranged oppositely. The plant however bears no fruit.
Tulip Gentian flower grows in part shade/part sun. It is tolerant to
acidic; slightly alkaline; sand; loam and clay soils. It tolerates drought
moderately.
Identification credit: Ajinkya Gadave
Photographed in Pune, Maharashtra.
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