spring gentian
gentiana verna latin

A number of superstitions are associated with the Spring Gentian.

The blue flower of the Spring Gentian, an alpine plant, is used as a symbol for the area by the tourist board.

Binks' discoveries include the particularly scarce Spring Gentian.

Spring gentian, honewort, and goldilocks aster are also dependent upon the thin soils, mild climate and exposed conditions of the headland.

The stamps feature four of the designs from this series: Bloody Crane's-bill, Mountain Avens, Spring Gentian and Common Knapweed.

But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian, the mountain avens and the bog orchid, which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered.

The Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) is a species of the genus Gentiana and one of its smallest members, normally only growing to a height of a few centimetres.

Here, too, were the bright blues of gentians, starlike spring gentian (Gentiana verna), which lay almost flat on tops of grass tufts, and the dramatic trumpet gentian (G. acaulis), with upright flowers open to the sky.

He says: 'They were rare even in Binks' day, but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians.

The Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) is a species of the genus Gentiana and one of its smallest members, normally only growing to a height of a few centimetres.

Here, too, were the bright blues of gentians, starlike spring gentian (Gentiana verna), which lay almost flat on tops of grass tufts, and the dramatic trumpet gentian (G. acaulis), with upright flowers open to the sky.

Later, following the internationally agreed changeover to a two-class system between 1956 and 1959, the coaches were operated as a first class train under the name Blauer Enzian (Blue Gentian or Gentiana verna), forming the long-distance express service F55/56 between Hamburg and Munich.