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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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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_campanulata_slend_c
August
Corolla lobes pink. Calyx lobes > 3/4× as long as the corolla lobes and sometimes exceeding them, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm231025_6283
October Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Calyx lobes are erect to wide spreading, linear to narrowly linear, less than 0.5mm wide, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).
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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p496
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p377
- 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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