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|accepted_name=Gentiana villosa
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 228. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Striped or pale or straw-colored gentian
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dasystephana villosa
|authority=(Linnaeus) Small
|rank=species
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|name=Gentiana deloachii
|authority=(W. P. Lemmon) Shinners
|rank=species
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|name=G. ochroleuca
|authority=Froelich
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Gentiana;Gentiana villosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gentiana]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gentiana villosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, 0.7–6 dm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5, terminal from caudex, erect. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, ± evenly spaced; blade obovate or spatulate to elliptic, 2.5–10 cm × 10–40 mm, proximal blade apices retuse or truncate to obtuse, distal ± acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> ± dense 1–10-flowered cymes, often with additional flowers at 1 or 2(–4) nodes or on branches. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 11–50 mm, lobes linear to oblanceolate, 5–35 mm, margins not ciliate; corolla largely white or greenish white with veins outlined in green, sometimes suffused with violet, or grayish violet ± throughout, tubular, narrowly open, 30–55 mm, lobes ascending, ovate-triangular, 4–10 mm, free portions of plicae obliquely triangular, erose, occasionally shallowly bifid; anthers connate or distinct. <b>Seeds</b> not winged. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall(–early winter southward).
|habitat=Mesic woods.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Gentiana villosa is believed to be extirpated from Delaware, the District of Columbia, and New Jersey.</p><!--
--><p>Although the name Gentiana ochroleuca is a heterotypic synonym of G. villosa, it was sometimes applied to G. flavida during the nineteenth century. Such a misapplication is responsible for reports of G. ochroleuca from Illinois. Reports of G. villosa from Arkansas are plausible but remain unsubstantiated.</p><!--
--><p>The species name is a misnomer as plants of Gentiana villosa species are glabrous. The use of the translation “hairy gentian” as a common name is inappropriate and potentially confusing.</p><!--
--><p>There is one record each of hybrids of Gentiana villosa with G. autumnalis and G. catesbaei.</p>
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name=Gentiana villosa
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dasystephana villosa;Gentiana deloachii;G. ochroleuca
|basionyms=
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall(–early winter southward).
|habitat=Mesic woods.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Gentiana
|species=Gentiana villosa
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