Gentiana sedifoliaKunth

WFO wfo-0000698601 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. a Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194724735
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194724956
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. c Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194722684
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. d Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195137182
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. e Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195137854
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle
fig. f Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194012422
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle
fig. g Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194003785
Gentiana sedifolia, photographed by Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle
fig. h Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193987682

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Gentiana sedifolia is native: Mexico Southeast, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Gentiana sedifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 240 in flower of 253 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Gentiana sedifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 240 of 253 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,791 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.4 °C 0.9 °C 5.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 8.2 °C 11.2 °C 15.9 °C
Annual rainfall 962 mm 2,118 mm 3,849 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 27 mm 230 mm 471 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,791 research-grade observations of Gentiana sedifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ericala sedifolia (Kunth) G.Don
  • Ericoila sedifolia (Kunth) G.Don
  • Gentiana casapaltensis (Ball) J.S.Pringle
  • Gentiana cespitosa Willd. ex Schult.
  • Gentiana chimboracensis Willd. ex Schult.
  • Gentiana microphylla Griseb.
  • Gentiana prostrata f. imbricata Kusn.
  • Gentiana sedifolia f. acaulis Kuntze
  • Gentiana sedifolia subvar. imbricata (Griseb.) Wedd.
  • Gentiana sedifolia subvar. splendens Wedd.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. casapaltensis Ball
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. compacta Griseb.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. elongata Griseb.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. grandiflora Kusn.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. imbricata Griseb.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. lineata Phil.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. micrantha Wedd.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. microphylla (Griseb.) Wedd.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. nana Kusn.
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. sedifolia
  • Gentiana sedifolia var. splendens Wedd.
  • Varasia sedifolia (Kunth) Soják

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.