9) Gentiana

I've got two small rooted cutting of Gentiana farreri, which I've never grown before. I need some advice on what this plant needs in the open garden. Thanks in advance.

There are a number of native Gentiana species that qualify as "bottle" gentians, where the flowers barely open or don't appear to open at all.

On sunny days you can come upon this very blue but small flower. They only open when the temperature is above 10C and the sun shines.

"Bakkesøte" Gentianella campestris grows in the lowlands becoming a foot high and in the mountains only reaching 1-2 inches. An annual but flowering till covered by snow.
Here with leaves of Dryas octopetala and Thalictrum alpinum.

This one you can encounter in the lower alpine areas in Norway. Once an important remedy (gentianae radix) for stomach problems it was exported in huge quanta. Now almost extinct many places do to gathering of roots.

It is a pleasure to come upon it on your hikes.

Hate dangling particles...oh well.

Gentianopsis barbellata is pretty widespread in the West, although I have only seen it in Colorado where it is nowhere abundant (except the autumn of 1967 when I saw hundreds and thousands on top of Weston Pass). For a long time I thought it was the only perennial Gentianopsis, but then I saw one in Mongolia that seemed perennial as well. One usually finds this in scattered clumps that definitely suggest that it runs very slightly.

I got the seeds to this one from some European BG whose name I can't recall. Took three years to bloom but finally I got flowers last September. It is obviously related to the bottle gentians of North America. Anyone able to confirm the ID? Not much info on the internet.

I'm not quite sure where this thing popped up commercially (I think Jelitto sells it as 'Blue Herald'): I'm pretty sure what I have just came from a lot of my own seedlings of Gentiana paradoxa which all turned out to look intermediate with septemfida (they do bloom at the same time). They are not quite like either parent, and seem to be much more vigorous and thrive in quite deep shade (like these in the picture) as well as a lot of sun.