The appearance of Gentiana scabra is as shown in the figure:

Gentiana scabra is a perennial herb, with relatively short rhizomes. The roots belong to fibrous roots, which are dense and slender, with as many as dozens. The roots are yellow and white, about 5 cm long, and the stems are upright and solitary or clustered. They usually bloom from August to September every year, and after more than one month, the seeds are brown strips.

Gentiana scabra (scientific name Adenophora capillaris? ), belonging to Gentianaceae, is a perennial herb of Adenophora, with solitary stems, 5 cm to 1 m high, hairless or long bristles.

Cauline leaves are usually oval, ovate-lanceolate, less strip-shaped, tapering at the top, serrated or hairless, 3-19 cm long and .5-4.5 cm wide. Inflorescences have long branches, often forming large and scattered panicles, few of which are narrow panicles, and even fewer flowers are integrated into false racemes. Peduncles and pedicels are often slender as silk.

The calyx tube is spherical, less egg-shaped, with hairy lobes, and sometimes there are 1 to several small tumor-like teeth at the lower part, occasionally forked, spreading or reflexed, and it is (3) 6-14 (2) mm long.

The corolla is thin, nearly tubular or tubular bell-shaped, 11-18 mm long, white, light blue or lavender, with narrowly triangular lobes, 3-4 mm long; Disk thin tube, 2-5 mm long, often glabrous, style 2-25 mm long. Capsules are mostly spherical, rarely ovoid, 4-9 mm long and 4-5 mm in diameter.

dried rhizome and root of Gentiana scabra can be used as medicine. Mainly produced in three northeastern provinces and Shandong, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other places.