Frasera umpquaensis

Umpqua green-gentian

Family: Gentianaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Umpqua green-gentian is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in mountain meadows at elevations of 1,700 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces pale yellow-green flowers with blue-tinted lobes in dense, slightly interrupted inflorescences. Growing 30 to 140 centimeters tall with a single unbranched stem, it develops distinctive whorled lower leaves and opposite upper leaves. Its basal leaves are spoon-shaped to obovate, measuring 15 to 30 centimeters long and 3 to 10 centimeters wide, with acute tips and a glabrous surface. The flower's distinctive features include elliptic-ovate corolla lobes with long-fringed ridges between stamens and round nectary pits.

Habitat: Mountain meadows

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1700-1900 m

Bioregions: KR

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