Great yellow gentian

Great yellow gentian is a plant regularly found in calcareous mountain pastures and meadows. Looking at just the leaves, it can often be confused with the white hellebore, a plant with alternating leaf arrangement. The gentian, on the other hand, is an opposite leaves plant. Gentian roots are also used to make liqueur. The plant needs to be at least 10 years old before it can be harvestable! What's more, the yield of liquor produced per root is very low: you need 10 kg of roots to produce one litre of liqueur!