" Swertia perennis"
Marsh felwort

 

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July - September. Dark violet flowers - more rarely greenish yellow or white - till 3,5 cm, 5 petals and 5 sepals. Leaves lanceolate , the superior ones embracing the stem.
 
 
Keep the soil permanently humid to emulate the natural conditions where it reproduces, the marshy areas between the 1500 and 2400 m.
  
 
Humid gardens, forming groups of flowers, by currents of water or ponds.
  
 
Sun
  
   
By means of seeds in autumn.
  
 
Peaty acid soil
  

 

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