Gentiana andrewsii Grisebach var. andrewsii. Common name: Prairie Closed Gentian. Phenology: Late Jul-early Nov. Habitat: Meadows, seeps, forest edges, freshwater marshes, open-canopied swamps. Distribution: New Hampshire, s. Québec, Minnesota, and s. Manitoba, south to s. Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Wyoming; earlier reports of it as far south as Georgia or North Carolina (as by F and G) are apparently based on misidentifications.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: An additional variety, var. dakotica A. Nelson, occurs from MB and SK south in the Great Plains to MO and IL.
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Can, FNA14, Il, K1, K4, Mo3, NE, NS, NY, POWO, Halda (1996), Ho & Liu (2001), Pringle (1967a); = Pneumonanthe andrewsii (Griseb.) W.A.Weber var. andrewsii; < Dasystephana andrewsii (Griseb.) Small — S; < Gentiana andrewsii Grisebach — F, G, GrPl, Mi, Pa, Tat, WV. Basionym: Gentiana andrewsii Grisebach 1837
Links to other floras: = Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii - FNA14
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (name change)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Great Plains: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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