Gentianella magellanica(Gaudich.) Fabris

WFO wfo-0000699322 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Gentianella magellanica, photographed by Agustín Zarco
fig. a Agustín Zarco, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-09 / obs. 59629055
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by Agustín Zarco
fig. b Agustín Zarco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59629071
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by John Brew
fig. c John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31959613
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by Pablo
fig. d Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179653087
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by María Regina Silva
fig. e María Regina Silva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181228635
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by María Regina Silva
fig. f María Regina Silva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111898171
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by María Regina Silva
fig. g María Regina Silva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111903926
Gentianella magellanica, photographed by Pablo
fig. h Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179653099

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Gentianella magellanica is native: Falkland Is., Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South Falkland Is.Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Gentianella magellanica, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Falkland Is. FAL ANTARCTICA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 75 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.1 °C -3.4 °C 1.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 8.8 °C 12.3 °C 17.4 °C
Annual rainfall 404 mm 1,124 mm 3,275 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 77 mm 212 mm 717 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 75 research-grade observations of Gentianella magellanica 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.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Gentiana araucana Phil.
  • Gentiana lactea Phil.
  • Gentiana magellanica Gaudich.
  • Gentiana magellanica f. albiflora Speg.
  • Gentiana magellanica f. cyanescens Speg.
  • Gentiana magellanica f. pumila Speg.
  • Gentiana magellanica var. darwinii Speg.
  • Gentiana magellanica var. typica Speg.
  • Gentiana modesta Phil.
  • Gentiana patagonica Griseb.
  • Gentiana patagonica f. pumila-uniflora Albov
  • Gentiana patagonica var. darwinii Griseb.
  • Gentiana patagonica var. gracilis Albov
  • Gentiana pearcei Phil.
  • Gentiana pearcei f. nana Hauman
  • Gentiana valdiviana Phil.
  • Oreophylax magellanicus (Gaudich.) Á.Löve

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.