Calflora: Gentiana affinis

Gentiana affinis Griseb.

pleated gentian

Gentiana affinis, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Northern Coastal Scrub, Sagebrush Scrub, Yellow Pine Forest, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Chaparral, Coastal Prairie, Northern Juniper Woodland
Wetlands:	Usually occurs in non wetlands, but occasionally found in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 7546 feet
Family:	GENTIANACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Gentiana found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Gentiana affinis var. ovata Gentiana affinis var. parvidentata

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

PLANTS:	Dasystephana affinis
PLANTS:	Pneumonanthe affinis
PLANTS:	Gentiana rusbyi
PLANTS:	Gentiana oregana
PLANTS:	Gentiana interrupta
PLANTS:	Gentiana forwoodii
PLANTS:	Gentiana bigelovii
PLANTS:	Gentiana affinis var. parvidentata
PLANTS:	Gentiana affinis var. ovata
PLANTS:	Gentiana affinis var. major
PLANTS:	Gentiana affinis var. forwoodii
PLANTS:	Gentiana affinis var. bigelovii
PLANTS:	Dasystephana interrupta
PLANTS:	Pneumonanthe bigelovii

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alpine: 3 / 3 CCH Del Norte: 42 / 37 CCH Humboldt: 14 / 14 CCH Mendocino: 17 / 14 CCH Modoc: 8 / 8 CCH Marin: 13 / 8 CCH Napa: 1 / 0 CCH San Francisco: 2 / 1 CCH Sonoma: 10 / 5 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Gentiana affinis from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (GEAF)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database