Family: Gentianaceae Marsh Gentian Gentiana pneumonanthe Flowering time: August-September. Perennial. Native Rare and declining on damp acidic grassland, wet heaths and dune slacks. Scattered distribution, most recent records are from Dorset and Hampshire. Absent from Scotland and Ireland. Nationally Scarce Terminal spikes of bright-blue flowers with ascending lobes and five greenish stripes on the outer side. Blunt, linear leaves without a basal rosette. The RDB micro moth Stenoptilia pneumonanthes feeds on Marsh Gentian but now considered extinct in UK, the last Dorset record was in 1967

   




Marsh Gentian, Gentiana pneumonanthe
Studland, Dorset. August 2008 and October 2021