Sabatia dodecandra |
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giant rose-gentian, marsh rose-gentian, perennial rose-gentian |
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Habit | Herbs perennial; stolons absent or weakly developed. |
Stems | 1–several, clustered, terete or distally 4-ridged but not angled or winged, 0.8–6 dm, branching all or mostly alternate. |
Leaves | basal absent at flowering time, internodes between cauline leaves mostly 1.25+ times as long as subtending leaves; blade elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, 1.5–7 cm × 4–12(–16) mm. |
Inflorescences | open, few-flowered monochasia or solitary flowers at ends of branches; pedicels 10–90(–110) mm. |
Flowers | 7–12(–14)-merous; calyx tube obconic to campanulate, 1.5–4 mm, mid- and commissural veins about equally prominent, 4-ridged; lobes linear to oblong-lanceolate or occasionally narrowly spatulate or ± foliaceous, 4–20 mm; corolla purplish pink or rarely white, eye yellow, projections of eye into corolla lobes oblong, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, usually with a red border, tube (3–)4–8 mm, lobes oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate-obovate, (10–)12–25 × 3–11 mm, apex rounded to subacute; anthers coiling circinately. |
2n | = 34 + 8B. |
Sabatia dodecandra |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Saltwater, brackish, or rarely freshwater marshes. |
Elevation | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) |
Distribution |
CT; DE; FL; GA; MD; NC; NJ; NY; SC; VA
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Discussion | There are historical records of Sabatia dodecandra from Connecticut and New York. Reports from west of the range given here have been based on a concept of the species that included S. foliosa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Gentianaceae > Sabatia |
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Synonyms | Chironia dodecandra, S. chloroides |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Britton: Sterns & Poggenburg, Prelim. Cat., 36. (1888) — (as Sabbatia) |
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