Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gentianella cunninghamii subsp. cunninghamii
Common name
Cunningham's snow gentian, Snow gentian
Family
Gentianaceae
Where found
Moist sites in woodland, wet heath, and moist treeless sites. Ranges and ACT, rarely in mountainous areas elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 0.6 m high. More or less rhizomatous. Basal leaves to 4.5 cm long, to 7 mm wide. Stem leaves opposite each other, to 3 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, tips blunt to somewhat pointed. Flowers white with grey violet or purplish to blue veins, cup-shaped with a short tube, and 5 'petals' 10-15 mm long. Flowers is rather dense clusters, usually 7–12-flowered. Flowers November to June.
Was Chionogentias cunninghamii subsp. cunninghamii.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Data deficient Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gentianella~cunninghamii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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