{{Short description|Plant species in the gentian family}} {{Speciesbox | image = Eustoma exaltatum exaltatum.jpg | image_caption = | status = {{TNCStatus}} | status_system = TNC | status_ref = <ref name="NatureServe">{{cite web |last1=NatureServe |title=''Eustoma exaltatum'' |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.807364/Eustoma_exaltatum |access-date=5 September 2024 |location=Arlington, Virginia |date=2024}}</ref> | genus = Eustoma | species = exaltatum | authority = (L.) Salisb. ex G.Don | subdivision_ranks = Forms | subdivision_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=367440-1 |title=''Eustoma exaltatum'' (L.) Salisb. ex G.Don |access-date=5 September 2024}}</ref> | subdivision = {{Species list | Eustoma exaltatum f. barkleyi | (Standl. ex Shinners) B.L.Turner | Eustoma exaltatum f. exaltatum | }} }}
'''''Eustoma exaltatum''''', commonly called '''seaside gentian''',<ref name=IRC>[https://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Eustexal Seaside gentian] The Institute for Regional Conservation</ref> is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family (Gentianaceae).
==Description== ''Eustoma exaltatum'' is an erect herbaceous plant with a glaucous, leafy stem. It produces large, purple, bell-shaped flowers throughout the growing season, peaking in spring through summer.<ref name=AZ/><ref name=IRC/>
''Eustoma russellianum'' is closely related to ''Eustoma exaltatum'', and in some treatments they are ranked as subspecies, rather than as separate species.<ref name=Jepson/>
==Distribution== It is native to North America, where it found in from the southern United States and the West Indies, south to Mexico and Belize.<ref name=Weakley>{{cite web |url=http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm |title= Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States |author= Alan Weakley |date= 2015}}</ref> Its natural habitat is wet places, such as alkaline marshes, stream beds, and saline coastal areas.<ref name=Weakley/><ref name=Jepson>[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80520 ''Eustoma exaltatum'' subsp. ''exaltatum''] The Jepson Herbarium</ref><ref name=AZ>{{cite book |last1=Kearney |first1=Thomas |last2=Peebles |first2=Robert |date=1942 |title=Flowering plants and ferns of Arizona |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/132362 |location= |publisher=U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |page=861 |isbn= |author-link= }}</ref> It is moderately tolerant of inundation by salt water, and highly tolerant of salt winds.<ref name=IRC/>
==References== {{Reflist}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q15548022}} Category:Gentianaceae Category:Flora of Mexico Category:Flora of Belize