Gentiana saponaria L. in the Flatwoods at Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Georgia. (Nov. 18, 2007.)

Scientific name: Gentiana saponaria L. Common name: Harvestbells Family: Gentianaceae Flowering records in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Georgia : October 21, 2000, October 21, 2001, November 26, 2006, November 18, and December 10, 2007. Habitat: moist woods, bogs, roadside ditches Image: Harvestbells in the Flatwoods, Berry College Campus, Floyd County, Georgia on December 10, 2007.

Comments: Alvin W. Chapman (1809 - 1899) a botanist, recorded location the Valley of the Coosa River in Floyd County, Georgia for his collection of Gentiana saponaria L., (AUA 227) at Auburn University Herbarium, Auburn, Alabama.

Description: "Stem smooth; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, narrowed at the base, rough-margined; calyx-lobes short and broad, obtuse, erect, or converging, longer than the 2-cleft minutely-toothed appendages; seeds acute, narrowly winged, covering the valves. Flowers clustered." -Alvin W. Chapman, 1884.

Last updated on December 10, 2007.

References:
1.Chapman, A. W. Flora of the southern United States 2nd ed. New York: American Book Company, 1884: 356.
2.Auburn University Herbarium http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/botany/herbarium/ Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2007. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 11 November 2007). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Alvin W. Chapman's Collection from Floyd County, Georgia (1872-1891)
Flatwoods: Berry College Campus