Fringed Gentian

Collecting

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If you are holding one of our collection kits, this is the page the QR code points at.

The form asks exactly the same questions as the paper data sheet in your kit, in the same order. Use whichever you prefer. You do not need to do both.

Photos

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Fringed gentian flowers from late August into early October, which is late enough that plenty of people who walk past it all summer have never seen it open. Click any photo for a larger version.

The project

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Why this species
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Gentianopsis crinita is a biennial of wet meadows, fens, old fields and roadside seeps across eastern North America. It germinates one year, flowers the next, and dies. There is no long-lived adult stage to buffer a bad year, and the seed bank is short-lived, so population sizes swing hard between years and local extinctions are ordinary rather than exceptional.

Where we're sampling

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The pale green is roughly where fringed gentian has been recorded. Each circle is one state or province, sized by how many populations we have in the study and coloured by how far along we are. Click one for detail.

Fringed Gentian

Collecting

Photos

The project

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Where we're sampling

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