Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sabatia dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Perennial Sea-pink at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010a:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
COMMON NAME:
Perennial Sea-pink, Large Marsh Rose-pink, Marsh Rose-gentian
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John B. Nelson jbn_7574233136_eb96107d41
July Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Resembling S. foliosa, but 1) leaves shorter than internodes 2) no stolons, per Gentians of the Eastern US.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sabatia dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010a:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
2858
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in GA)
Look for it in tidal brackish & freshwater marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (basal rosette absent or withered at flowering)
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink
(rarely white), with a yellow eye sometimes bordered in red
Radially symmetrical
6-10 lobed calyx
10(+)lobed rotate corolla
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gentians of the Eastern US p174
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p328
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p380
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p103
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p063
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p196