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Gentiana glauca is a species of flowering plant in the Gentianaceae known by the common names pale gentian and glaucous gentian. It is native to eastern Asia and northwestern North America from Alaska to the Northwest Territories to Washington and Montana.Williams, Tara Y. 1990. Gentiana glauca. In: Fire Effects Information System, Online. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.
This perennial herb produces a rosette of oval leaves each centimeters long from a rhizome. Leaves on the stem are oppositely arranged. The stem grows to a maximum height near . The inflorescence is a cluster of three to five blue or blue-green flowers up to long. The fruit is a tubular capsule. Gentiana glauca. The Nature Conservancy. Gentiana glauca. Washington Burke Museum. The plant reproduces sexually by seed and spreads vegetatively by sprouting from its rhizome.
This plant grows on tundra and in a variety of moist, treeless habitat types. It occurs in subalpine and . It occurs at elevations around in Montana and at least in Alaska.
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