Gentian Family

Plants in this area were heavily browsed by antelope and soil erosion was exposing the crowns.

One this day the plants were very actively visited by a number of possible pollinators, including wasps, bees, butterflies, and ants.

This species grows with Frasera albomarginatus, which typically has a single stem with many branches and wider leaves. F. gypsicola typically has a branched crown with many unbranched or sparsely branched stems and narrower leaves.

Plants that are not flowering look like a clump of grass with white leaf margins.

Markings on flowers vary from pale lavendar to bright purple.

Leaf: narrowly white-margined; basal 423 cm, 312(20) mm wide, oblanceolate; cauline opposite, distal linear-oblong.