Gentiana acaulis 'Krebs'stemmless gentian. Native to mountainous regions of South Central and Southern Europe from the Pyrennees to the Balkans, G. acaulis has been cultivated since at least the 18th century. The species was the first gentian to be featured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (in the second volume.) The cultivar 'Krebs' is a particularly floriferous form.
Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, oder, Sammlung nach der Natur gemalter Abbildungen inn- und ausländlischer Pflanzen, für Liebhaber und Beflissene der Botanik /.
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Ectypa plantarum ratisbonensium :
Regensburg :Verfertiget und verlegt von Johann Mayr ... und gedruckt mit Zeitlerischen Schriften,1787-1793.
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Description: English: Gentiana acaulis alba, near Geraer Hütte, Zillertaler Alpen, Tyrol, Austria Deutsch: Gentiana acaulis alba, in der Nähe der Geraer Hütte, Zillertaler Alpen, Tirol, Österreich. Date: 16 June 1994. Source: Own work. Author: Haneburger. Camera location 47° 02′ 45.7″ N, 11° 37′ 29″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 47.046028; 11.624722.
Description: Deutsch: Enziane auf dem Gotthard. Date: 10 July 2004. Source: [1]. If this link does not work (URLs are subject to changes), you can find the picture starting from the canton of the subject: http://www.picswiss.ch/geo.html then the location. Author: Roland Zumbühl (Picswiss), Arlesheim (Commons:Picswiss project). Permission (Reusing this file): Permission statement (in German) : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:.. This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue.
Description: Español: Genciana [Gentiana acaulis] junto al Stellisee; al fondo, el Matterhorn. Zermatt (Cantón del Valais, Suiza) English: Stemless Gentian [Gentiana acaulis] next to Stellisee. Zermatt, Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: July 1995. Source: Own work. Author: LBM1948.