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Sabatia brevifolia

Elliott's or narrow-leaf or short-leaf sabatia, shortleaf rose gentian
Habit Herbs annual.
Stems

single, terete, 1.5–7 dm, branching all or mostly alternate.
Leaves

all cauline or basal occasionally persistent at flowering time;

blade linear to oblong-lanceolate, 0.5–3 cm × 1–5(–7) mm.
Inflorescences

open cymes or solitary flowers at ends of branches;

pedicels (10–)20–40(–50) mm.
Flowers

5-merous;

calyx tube obconic, 1–3 mm, mid- and commissural veins about equally prominent, not or low-ridged, lobes filiform, 3–8 mm;

corolla white, eye greenish yellow, projections of eye into corolla lobes without a contrasting border, tube 1–3 mm, lobes oblanceolate, 6–18 × 2–7 mm, apex obtuse to acute;

anthers coiling circinately.
2n

 = 32.

Sabatia brevifolia
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open pine woods, savannas, bogs.
Elevation 0–70 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; SC
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Discussion

Reports of Sabatia brevifolia from Louisiana were based on a specimen of questionable provenance and are considered probably erroneous by students of that state’s flora.

In some older literature, the name Sabatia difformis was misapplied to S. brevifolia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Gentianaceae > Sabatia
Sibling taxa
S. angularis, S. arenicola, S. arkansana, S. brachiata, S. calycina, S. campanulata, S. campestris, S. capitata, S. decandra, S. difformis, S. dodecandra, S. foliosa, S. formosa, S. gentianoides, S. grandiflora, S. kennedyana, S. macrophylla, S. quadrangula, S. stellaris
Synonyms S. elliottii
Name authority Rafinesque: Atlantic J. 1: 147. (1832) — (as Sabbatia)
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