Gentianaceae FAMILY

Gentiana decumbens

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Gentiana decumbens is a herbaceous perennial plant with a stout, branched rootstock; it produces a basal rosette of leaves with ascending stems around 15 - 45cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine, being used in several herbal prescriptions in Mongolia. It is often grown as an ornamental.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - eastern European Russia and Kazakhstan, east to eastern Siberia, Mongolia and northern China

HabitatAlpine slopes; at elevations from 3,300 - 4,500 metres[ 240 Title Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants (Including the Supplement). Publication Author Chopra. R. N., Nayar. S. L. and Chopra. I. C. Publisher Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. Year 1986 ISBN - Description Very terse details of medicinal uses of plants with a wide range of references and details of research into the plants chemistry. Not for the casual reader. ]. Along streams, grassland slopes, clearings in forests, dry steppes at elevations of 1,200 - 2,700 metres in northern China[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].