Noun: tulip gentian
- One of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
"tulip gentians dotted the meadow with their striking blue blooms";
- prairie gentian, bluebell, Eustoma grandiflorum
Derived forms: tulip gentians
Type of: wild flower, wildflower
Part of: Eustoma, genus Eustoma
Encyclopedia: Tulip gentian