Frasera

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Frasera albomarginata 2.jpg

| image_caption = Flower of Frasera albomarginata

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Frasera

| authority = Walter

| type_species = Frasera caroliniensis

| type_species_authority = Walter

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

Sources: GRIN,{{cite web

| url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11742

| title = Genus: Swertia

| accessdate = 2008-05-16

| author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)

| authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network

| date = 2004-09-23

| work = Taxonomy for Plants

| publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120914154914/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11742

| archive-date = 2012-09-14

| url-status = dead

}} ING,{{cite web

| url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Frasera

| title = Index Nominum Genericorum database

| accessdate = 2011-12-11

| year = 1978

| work = International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

| publisher = Smithsonian Institution

}}

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Frasera, the green gentians, is a genus in the gentian family, native to North America and named for John Fraser, a Scottish botanist and colleague of Thomas Walter.The Frasera (Walter, 1795) were named for John Fraser. (Linn. 4-Tetrandria, i-Moniogynia, allied to Chironia.) See, Card, H.H., [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2394089 A revision of Genus Frasera], Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, April 1931, 18(2):245-282 at 245. Accessed 2 August 2012. And ref Johnson, George William, Johnson's Gardeners' dictionary and cultural instructor, London, A. T. De La Mare printing and publishing co., Ltd., 1916, p. 361. {{doi|10.5962/bhl.title.20764}}. Accessed 2 August 2012.