Sabatia gentianoides |
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pinewoods rose-gentian, spider rose-gentian |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–fall. |
Habitat | Open wet pine woods, pine savannas, wet meadows, roadsides. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
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 | |
Synonyms | Lapithea gentianoides |
Name authority | Elliott: Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 286. (1817) — (as Sabbatia) |
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