striped gentian: a perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America
vascular plant: green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
base pair: one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA