fringed gentian

American  

noun

1. a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (orGentiana ), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.

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Etymology

Origin of fringed gentian

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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fringed gentian

As a child, Dickinson routinely wandered the woods, returning with handfuls of wildflowers: anemones, larkspur, fringed gentian, pink lady’s slipper.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Under a leaning birch he found a patch of purple asters, and a little apart from them, by a mossy stone, a lonely fringed gentian.

From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane

The fringed gentian belongs to September, and, when the severer frosts keep away, it runs over into October.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

But take at morning the path through brown lowgrounds, or close along the wood where frost sleeps late, for here that flower of desire, the fringed gentian, grows.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

Here's the purple aster, And the golden-rod, And the blue fringed gentian, By the meadow sod.

From Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories by Nichols, H. P.