Yellow-flowered horse-gentian

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Yellow-flowered horse-gentian

Yellow-flowered horse-gentian

Yellow-flowered horse-gentian habit

Yellow-flowered horse-gentian inflorescence

Yellow-flowered horse-gentian flowers and bracts

Yellow-flowered horse-gentian leaf

Morphology

Stem

Solitary or few, erect to ascending, unbranched, moderately to densely long hirsute.

Leaves

Opposite, simple; oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4 to 7 inches long, 1 to 2.8 inches wide, base attenuate, not encircling stem, margins ciliate, apex acuminate or occasionally acute, surfaces moderately hirsute, veins often canescent.

Inflorescence

Solitary flowers in axils of upper leaves, sessile, each flower subtended by pair of leaf-like bracts as long or longer than flower; bracts linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, sparsely pubescent.

Flower

Calyx 5-lobed; lobes linear to narrowly triangular or narrowly lanceolate, .3 to .5 inch long, .04 to .08 inch wide, sparsely hirsute, margins entire, ciliate with long and short hairs, apex acute to obtuse; corolla pale yellow, salverform, .5 to .6 inch, 5-lobed, outer surface with gland-tipped hairs; stamens 5; style included.

Fruit

Drupe, pale orange, spherical, .2 to .3 inch diameter, moderately to densely hairy; nutlets usually 3, tan to straw-colored, ellipsoid.

Ecology

Habitat

Rocky wooded hillsides, bluff bases, stream banks

Distribution

Cherokee County, Kansas