| Scientific Name: | Eustoma grandiflorum |
| Common Name: | lisianthus, prairie gentian, Texas bluebell |
| Family Name: | Gentianaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, U.S. - central, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Biennial, Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Indoor plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glaucous, Oblong, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Violet, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate to oblong, most 6-9cm long x 4-5cm wide, glaucous, , 3-5 major veins, margin entire, sessile, petiole stem-clasping; flowers bell-shaped, up to 5cm wide with flaring pale purple petal-like lobes. | |