Gentian flower specific introduction:

1, Gentian, (Latin name: Gentiana scabra Bunge), for the Gentianaceae. Perennial herb, 30-60 centimeters high; root yellow-white, rope-like, more than 20 centimeters long. Stem erect, stout, often purplish brown, rough. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, with 3-5 veins, acute or acuminate, sessile, margins and main veins scabrous below. Flowers clustered at stem tips or leaf axils; bracts lanceolate, subequal to calyx; calyx campanulate, 2.5-3 cm long, lobes striate-lanceolate, subequal to calyx tube; corolla tubular-campanulate, blue-purple, 4-5 cm long, lobes ovate, pointed, pleated-triangular, sparsely 2-dentate; stamens 5, filaments broadly winged at base; style short, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule rectangular, stipitate; seeds barred, margin winged.

2, according to the gentian planting people understand, after sowing the second year of flowering and fruiting, gentian flowers are not flowering all year round, gentian flowers generally in the first half of August each year there is the first flower, the flowering period of fifty days. Open during the day, closed at night. Prefer full sunlight. Distributed in North Korea, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Zhejiang and other places. It grows in meadows, thickets, or forest margins. Roots into medicine, can remove the liver and gallbladder fire.