Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 6 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | AUT | EUROPE |
| Czechia-Slovakia | CZE | |
| Germany | GER | |
| Italy | ITA | |
| NW. Balkan Pen. | YUG | |
| Switzerland | SWI |
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 216 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -15.9 °C | -11.8 °C | -7.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 12.5 °C | 16.2 °C | 21.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,250 mm | 1,848 mm | 2,467 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 202 mm | 335 mm | 477 mm |
It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 216 research-grade observations of Gentianella obtusifolia 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 35 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 amarella var. obtusifolia (F.W.Schmidt) Bolzon
- Gentiana amarella var. sturmiana (A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.) Bolzon
- Gentiana anisodonta var. trichoneura Borbás
- Gentiana aspera Hegetschw.
- Gentiana aspera f. anisiaca (Nevole) Hayek
- Gentiana aspera f. nevoleana Hayek
- Gentiana aspera f. pusilla J.C.Mayer ex Hegi
- Gentiana aspera subsp. norica (A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.) Ronniger
- Gentiana aspera subsp. sturmiana (A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.) Hayek
- Gentiana aspera var. calycinoidea (Keller) Wettst.
- Gentiana aspera var. pygmaea (Glaab) Hayek
- Gentiana germanica var. praecox Griseb.
- Gentiana germanica var. pygmaea Glaab
- Gentiana germanica var. spatulata (Bartl. ex Rchb.) Rouy
- Gentiana germanica var. sturmiana (A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.) Beck
- Gentiana gracilis Nees
- Gentiana montana Nees
- Gentiana norica A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.
- Gentiana norica f. anisiaca Nevole
- Gentiana norica f. calycinoidea Keller
- Gentiana obtusifolia (F.W.Schmidt) Willd.
- Gentiana obtusifolia var. spatulata Bartl. ex Rchb.
- Gentiana polymorpha subsp. aspera (Hegetschw. & Heer) Dostál
- Gentiana polymorpha subsp. norica (A.Kern. & Jos.Kern.) Wettst.
and 11 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.