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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY Gentianaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sabbatia grandiflora

 

COMMON NAME:
Largeflower Rose-gentian


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image of Sabatia grandiflora, Largeflower Rose-gentian

Keith Bradley    kab_s_grandiflora_76871

May    Palm Beach County    FL

Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area

Typically a larger and coarser plant than S. stellaris, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).

image of Sabatia grandiflora, Largeflower Rose-gentian

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_s_grandiflora_12

July        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia grandiflora

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3777

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Wet flatwoods, marshes, cypress-gum depressions, limesink ponds, borrow pits, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia Coastal Plain

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink with a yellow eye
Radially symmetrical
5-6 lobed rotate corolla

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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