[2][9] Gentiana froelichii was described by German botanist Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach[4] in his work Fl.

[2][1] The species' name is dedicated to German doctor, entomologist and botanist Josef Aloys Frölich, who lived between 1766 and 1841, and is an author of a monograph from 1796 dealing with genus Gentiana.

[5] This low growing plant's petals are bright blue[10][12] to violet[12] and its corolla lobes are not spread out like in many other Gentiana species (instead they are set upright).

[12] In Slovenia and Austria it can be found as an endemic plant in eastern Karawanks and Kamnik–Savinja Alps.

[14] The plant grows beyond the tree line; its usual habitat consists of stony meadows and rock crevices, located in alpine zone.