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pinewoods rose-gentian, spider rose-gentian

Habit Herbs annual.
Stems

single, terete or slightly 4-ridged but not angled or winged, 1.5–5(–6.5) dm, branching opposite or alternate.

Leaves

cauline and often also basal present at flowering time;

basal blades widely oblong-spatulate;

cauline blades abruptly differentiated, linear, 1–10 cm × 1–3 mm.

Inflorescences

flowers solitary or in dense, few-flowered clusters, sessile.

Flowers

7–12-merous;

calyx tube widely campanulate, 3–8 mm, not ridged, lobes setaceous, 3–17 mm;

corolla pink, eye greenish yellow, projections of eye into corolla tube oblong, without a border, tube 6–10 mm, lobes oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate-obovate, 12–30 × 4–11 mm, apex rounded to obtuse;

anthers slightly twisting helically, not coiling circinately.

2n

 = 28.

Sabatia gentianoides

Phenology Flowering late spring–fall.
Habitat Open wet pine woods, pine savannas, wet meadows, roadsides.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.)
Distribution
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AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX
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Discussion

The name spider rose-gentian is derived from the appearance of the involucre subtending each solitary flower or cluster of a few flowers, which comprises two to four or more closely spaced pairs of narrowly linear leaves.

(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. brevifolia, S. calycina, S. campanulata, S. campestris, S. capitata, S. decandra, S. difformis, S. dodecandra, S. foliosa, S. formosa, S. grandiflora, S. kennedyana, S. macrophylla, S. quadrangula, S. stellaris
Synonyms Lapithea gentianoides
Name authority Elliott: Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 286. (1817) — (as Sabbatia)
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