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| genus = Gentiana<br />
| species = verna<br />
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<br />
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'''''Gentiana verna''''', the '''spring gentian''', is a species of flowering plant in the family Gentianaceae, and one of its smallest members, normally only growing to a height of a few centimetres.<br />
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The short stem supports up to three opposing pairs of elliptical or lanceolate leaves. The conspicuous vivid blue (sometimes purplish-red or rarely white)<ref name="Pardoe">{{cite book|last=Pardoe|first=H. S.|title=Mountain Plants of the British Isles|year=1995|publisher=National Museum of Wales|pages=24|isbn=978-0-7200-0423-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bRHwm1F15S0C&pg=PA24}}</ref> flowers are 1–2&nbsp;cm in diameter, with a deeply five-lobed [[Corolla (flower)|corolla]]; they are produced in late spring to early summer.<ref name="Pardoe" /> The flowers attract butterflies and bees (particularly bumblebees) for [[pollination]]. Ants are responsible for the spreading of its seeds.<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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''G. verna'' is one of the most widespread gentians, found on sunny [[alpine meadow]]s throughout Eurasia, from Ireland to Russia. It is common in central and southeastern Europe, such as in low mountain ranges like the [[Jura mountains|Jura]] and [[Balkans]], and up to an altitude of {{cvt|2600|m}}. It is also to be found in mountainous regions ranging from the [[High Atlas]] of Morocco to the mountains of Turkey, Iraq and Iran. In northern Europe, it is very rare, confined to [[Teesdale]] in northern England and a handful of locations in western [[Ireland]].<ref name="Pardoe"/> It tends to thrive on dry meadows with [[chalk]]y soil; it is also known to grow in [[silicate|silicaceous]] soils. Its scarcity has led to protection in a number of European countries as an [[endangered species]].<br />
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==Symbolism==<br />
It is the [[County flowers of the United Kingdom|county flower]] of [[Durham, England|Durham]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>Plantlife website [http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/county_flowers/ ''County Flowers page''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430170312/http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/county_flowers/ |date=2015-04-30 }}</ref> It was first found in Britain by the botanist [[John Harriman (botanist)|John Harriman]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Harriman, John|volume=24}}</ref><br />
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A drawing of ''Gentiana verna'' by [[Holly Somerville]] is the logo for the botany department in Trinity College Dublin.<ref name="TCD Botany Blog">{{cite web|title=plant sciences at Trinity College Dublin|url=http://botanytcd.blogspot.ie/|website=blogspot.ie|accessdate=12 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042009/http://botanytcd.blogspot.ie/|archive-date=4 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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''Gentiana verna'' appeared on the design of a Great Britain stamp, issued in 1964 to mark the 10th [[International Botanical Congress]] held in [[Edinburgh]].<br />
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Writer and botanist [[Stevan Jakovljević]] eulogized the flower in its Latin name at the end of his trilogy ''Srpska trilogija'' which writes of the [[Serbian campaign of World War I|Serbian soldiers]] who died during the [[Battle of Kaymakchalan|Battle of Kajmakčalan]] and the [[Macedonian front]] during [[World War I]] (the flower grows on the soldiers' graves in the mountains of [[Kajmakčalan]]).<br />
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The flower is associated with the Alps, and gave its name to the trans-Alpine ''[[Blauer Enzian]]'' ("Blue Gentian") express train between Germany and Austria.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.floraqueen.fr/blog/les-plus-jolies-fleurs-damour/ |title= Buy flowers online }} Saturday, 24 August 2019</ref><br />
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