Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-    Plate No. 491

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-COMMON_NAMES- Vernal Gentian
-GENUS- Gentiana
-SPECIES- Gentiana verna
-CLASS- Pentandria
-ORDER- Digynia
-AUTHORITY- Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS- Gentiana 
-MODERN_SPECIES- Gentiana verna
-MODERN_FAMILY- Gentianaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- hardy perennial
-COLOR- brilliant blue
-SEASON- April or May
-NATIVE_REGION- Alps of Switzerland, Austria and the Pyrenees, Ireland, Durham

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 14
-PUB_DATE- 1800
-REISSUED- 
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0414 IMG0107.PCD