Trying to Identify this Gentian

[t5247rb]

Found this on July 14, in the Tirol Alps at 2122meters.  The flowers seem too small for Bavarian Gentian.

[Heather Smith]

G. tergluoensis is my best guess. The leaves look like it and the height and place agree. I have seen this and it does resemble what I saw.

The flowers seem too big for G. nivalis and the leaves are wrong.

[ranunculus]

Totally agree with you Heather.

[t5247rb]

In the other on-line photos I've seen of Gentiana terglouensis it seems to grow very close to the ground. http://flora.nhm-wien.ac.at/Seiten-Arten/Gentiana-terglouensis.htm

However, in the speciman I photographed there is a definate stem of a few cm.  Is this significant?

[Heather Smith]

That partly depends on exactly where it is growing - average of perhaps 2cm but lower in different growing conditions. In the wild many plants are surprisingly variable. Howver my only other guess is G pumila but I can't see the stem leaves well enough.

or another species that I don't know (and there are plenty of those!!)