gentians

Prairie gentians Eustoma grandiflorum are also good vase plants for your Valentine's Day arrangement.

Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011

Available in hundreds of species, gentians typically have trumpet-shaped flowers of "such a piercing blue, it's almost painful," says Mr. Kelaidis, who grows more than a dozen types of gentians in Denver.

Mad About Blue in the Garden 2010

As though reluctant to drive under their shadow and unwilling to end the solitude of this peaceful undemanding day he spent some time searching unsuccessfully for marsh gentians in the swampy scrubland before setting off on the last five miles of his journey.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Over by Station Heath lay the boggy Gentian Valley with its marsh gentians, and First Bog, snowed with the fluffy tops of cotton grass.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

As Barry, Jane and I walked up the track across the heath to our old campsite, we passed Gentian Valley, and, reassuringly, the deep blue marsh gentians were still there, in flower, half hidden in the heather.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Over by Station Heath lay the boggy Gentian Valley with its marsh gentians, and First Bog, snowed with the fluffy tops of cotton grass.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

As Barry, Jane and I walked up the track across the heath to our old campsite, we passed Gentian Valley, and, reassuringly, the deep blue marsh gentians were still there, in flower, half hidden in the heather.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Associated herbs are gentians, Gentiana ornata and G. algida var. przewalskii, edelweiss Leontopodium jacotianum and Himalayan blue poppy Meconopsis horridula.

Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal 2008

There are more than 200 species of rhododendrons, 37 of them discovered in the area, over 300 species of timber trees, more than 100 species of gentians and primulas, many species of lily and orchid, and some 500 species of medicinal plants.

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China 2008

For a short time in late spring and summer, the meadows become resplendent with a colorful tapestry of delphiniums, gentians, poppies, roseroots, louseworts, anemones, and asters, to name but a few.

Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows 2008