Sabatia campanulata
campanulate sabatia, savannah sabatia, slender rose-gentian
1–many, clustered, terete or distally 4-ridged but not angled or winged, 1.5–6(–9) dm, branching all or mostly alternate.
all cauline at flowering time;
blade narrowly lanceolate or oblong (proximal) to linear (all or distal), 1–4 cm × 1–7(–12) mm.
open, few-flowered cymes or solitary flowers at ends of branches;
pedicels (20–)40–70(–90) mm.
5-merous;
calyx tube turbinate to shallowly campanulate, 1–3 mm, mid- and commissural veins about equally prominent, not or low-ridged, lobes setaceous to narrowly linear;
corolla pink or rarely white, eye yellow, projections of eye into corolla lobes oblong, usually with a red border, tube 2–6 mm, lobes oblanceolate, 6–24 × 3–9(–11) mm, apex obtuse;
anthers coiling circinately.
= 34.
Sabatia campanulata
Sabatia campanulata formerly occurred in Indiana and Pennsylvania, but there are no recent records from those states.
The differences upon which varieties of Sabatia campanulata have been based appear largely to be phenotypic responses to seasonal phenomena and conditions of the habitat. They exhibit less correlation with geographic distribution than some authors have indicated (R. L. Wilbur 1955).
There is a record of a hybrid of Sabatia campanulata with S. kennedyana.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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