Pine green-gentian, formerly named Frasera neglecta, is an erect, glabrous, 1-several stemmed perennial or biennial with opposite, linear, sessile, entire-margined leaves. The flowers are greenish-white streaked with purple, the four corolla lobes oblong to obovate with abrupt acute to acuminate tips and a fringed gland at the base of each lobe, and appear in dense, whorl-like clusters.  Pine green-gentian is typically 8"-16" tall and flowers from May to July.  It inhabits dry slopes from 4500' to 8000' in yellow pine forest areas, desert slopes of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mts, and Mt. Pinos.  The Jepson Manual describes it as uncommon.

Click here for Latin name derivations: 1) Swertia 2) neglecta.
Pronunciation: SWER-tee-a ne-GLEK-ta.
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