Gentianopsis ciliata(L.) Ma

fringed gentian

WFO wfo-0000699595 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. a Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-17 / obs. 166294592
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163280684
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Harrison J Elkins
fig. c Harrison J Elkins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168833749
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by carabus123
fig. d carabus123, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161686247
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Norrland
fig. e Norrland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162220762
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159195519
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Juraj Ahel
fig. g Juraj Ahel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159956896
Gentianopsis ciliata, photographed by Jan Herr
fig. h Jan Herr, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156039955

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Gentianopsis ciliata is native: Morocco, Altay, Iran, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine MoroccoAltayIranKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Gentianopsis ciliata, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
West Siberia WSB
Morocco MOR AFRICA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 680 in flower of 692 examined

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Gentianopsis ciliata 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. 680 of 692 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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.

Also published as 19 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.

  • Anthopogon ciliata (L.) Raf.
  • Crossopetalum ciliatum (L.) Fourr.
  • Crossopetalum gentiana Andrz. ex Trautv.
  • Crossopetalum gentianoides Roth
  • Gentiana blepharophora Bordz.
  • Gentiana ciliata L.
  • Gentiana ciliata subsp. blepharophora (Bordz.) Greuter
  • Gentiana ciliata var. multiflora Gaudin
  • Gentiana fimbriata Willd. ex Schult.
  • Gentianella ciliata (L.) Borkh.
  • Gentianella ciliata f. albiflora Morariu
  • Gentianella ciliata subsp. blepharophora (Bordz.) N.M.Pritch.
  • Gentianella fimbriata Delarbre
  • Gentianopsis blepharophora (Bordz.) Galushko
  • Gentianusa ciliata (L.) Pohl
  • Hippion ciliatum F.W.Schmidt
  • Hippion dentosum F.W.Schmidt
  • Lehmanna ciliata Casseb. & Theob.
  • Lexipyretum ciliatum Dulac

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.