Greater Fringed Blue Gentian #2 is a photograph by Gregory Scott which was uploaded on April 25th, 2012.
Greater Fringed Blue Gentian #2
A Greater Fringed Blue Gentian flower is playing host to an inchworm with gourmet taste.... more
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Greater Fringed Blue Gentian #2
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Gregory Scott
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A Greater Fringed Blue Gentian flower is playing host to an inchworm with gourmet taste.
Greater Fringed Blue Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) is a rather rare biannual plant that grows where there is partial to full sunlight and a seeping spring, and usually at fairly high altitudes in the eastern US, and corresponding altitudes in the western parts of the US. It blooms late in autumn, around the time when wild asters bloom. Photographed at road cuts not very far from Brasstown Bald, Georgia on October 5th. It's difficult to propagate, and is a protected species. Never pick them, because each blossom you pick subtracts potential seeds from the propagation of the plant, which reproduces with wind-scattered seed. You can imagine that it's relatively difficult for a small bed of these flowers to find their way to another seeping spring on another nearby mountain, for example. Please take care not to trample or pick these or any other endangered or protected wildflower.
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