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Monday, September 7, 2015

Stiff Gentian (Gentianella quinquefolia)

Photographic Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This wildflower is a member of the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae).

Also known as Ague Weed and Five-Flowered Gentian, his annual has open flowers of light blue or lilac with bristle-pointed, fringeless lobes and a 4-sided stem. It occurs from southwestern Maine south to Florida and from southern Ontario to Missouri, Louisiana, and southern Tennessee. 

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