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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia campanulata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Slender Marsh-pink at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia campanulata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-008:
Sabatia campanulata FAMILY Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia campanulata
COMMON NAME:
Slender Marsh-pink, Slender Rose-gentian
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia campanulata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia campanulata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-008:
Sabatia campanulata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia campanulata
3113
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, bogs, seeps, fens, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink
(rarely white), with a yellow eye bordered in dull red
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) p087
- Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011) p164
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p317
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p366
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p182
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p216
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p187
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p223
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p125
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