Sabatia dodecandra |
Sabatia macrophylla |
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giant rose-gentian, marsh rose-gentian, perennial rose-gentian |
large-leaf sabatia, largeleaf rose gentian |
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Habit | Herbs perennial; stolons absent or weakly developed. | Herbs perennial, not stoloniferous. | ||||
Stems | 1–several, clustered, terete or distally 4-ridged but not angled or winged, 0.8–6 dm, branching all or mostly alternate. |
several, clustered, terete, 5–14 dm, branching opposite throughout. |
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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. |
all cauline at flowering time; blade lanceolate to ovate-oblong or ovate, 2.5–6(–8.5) cm × 5–30(–45) mm. |
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Inflorescences | open, few-flowered monochasia or solitary flowers at ends of branches; pedicels 10–90(–110) mm. |
corymboid dichasia of compact cymules; pedicels 1–5 mm. |
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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. |
5-merous; calyx tube campanulate, 1–2 mm, mid- and commissural veins about equally prominent, not ridged or with low, narrow ridges, lobes triangular to linear-subulate, 0.1–3 mm; corolla white or cream throughout, tube 2–4 mm, lobes oblong-oblanceolate, 4–7(–9) × 2–3(–4) mm, apex rounded to obtuse; anthers recurving. |
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2n | = 34 + 8B. |
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Sabatia dodecandra |
Sabatia macrophylla |
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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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se United States
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The inflorescences of Sabatia macrophylla are nearly flat-topped and usually contain more flowers than those of other Sabatia species. The relatively small, closely spaced flowers give this species a distinctive aspect. It further differs from S. difformis in its glaucous stems and leaves. Sabatia macrophylla is restricted to central and southern Georgia, northern Florida, and southern Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, mostly but not exclusively (in Georgia) near the Gulf Coast. The range of var. macrophylla extends farther west than that of var. recurvans. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
Parent taxa | Gentianaceae > Sabatia | Gentianaceae > Sabatia | ||||
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Synonyms | Chironia dodecandra, S. chloroides | |||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Britton: Sterns & Poggenburg, Prelim. Cat., 36. (1888) — (as Sabbatia) | Hooker: Compan. Bot. Mag. 1: 171. (1836) — (as Sabbatia) | ||||
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