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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia stellaris
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Annual Sea-pink at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia stellaris
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-007:
Sabatia stellaris FAMILY Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia campanulata
COMMON NAME:
Annual Sea-pink, Salt-marsh Pink, Rose-of-Plymouth
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sast5_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmstellaris_bcnp
Month Unknown Collier County FL
Big Cypress National Preserve
Pink, 5-petaled flowers borne on straight, slender, 2-4" stalks, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia stellaris
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia stellaris
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-007:
Sabatia stellaris
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia campanulata
2317
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Brackish marshes, maritime wet grasslands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite, sometimes basal
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink
(rarely white), with a yellow eye
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed rotate corolla
5 stamens, fused to corolla
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p088
- Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011) p192
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p348
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p496
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p367
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p083
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p216
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