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Kōrero: Alpine plants

White gentian

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White gentian

Many of New Zealand’s 30 species of gentian (Gentianella species) are found in tussock grasslands and alpine herbfields. Pink- and blue-flowered gentians occur on subantarctic islands, but species on the mainland have white flowers, although some have pink-purple veins on their petals, and some populations of mainland gentian have purple-flushed flowers.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10059074

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Hugh Wilson, Alpine plants – Survival, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11052/white-gentian (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Wilson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.