Alpine Gentian

It grows to a height of 3-15 cm. Corolla is wheel-shaped, sky-blue, 15 mm long, fused, 5-lobed, with long and narrow tube; throat lacking fringe, small tooth-like appendage between lobes. Flowers solitary, terminating branches.
Leaves are opposite, stalkless. Basal leaf blades broadly elliptic, with entire margin, parallel-veined, stem leaves narrowly ovate–elliptic.