Sabatia macrophylla |
Sabatia calycina |
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large-leaf sabatia, largeleaf rose gentian |
coastal rose-gentian |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, not stoloniferous. | Herbs perennial, not stoloniferous. | ||||
Stems | several, clustered, terete, 5–14 dm, branching opposite throughout. |
usually single, occasionally 2–several, terete or distally ± 4-angled but not winged, 0.8–5 dm, branching all or mostly alternate. |
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Leaves | all cauline at flowering time; blade lanceolate to ovate-oblong or ovate, 2.5–6(–8.5) cm × 5–30(–45) mm. |
all cauline at flowering time; blade elliptic to widely spatulate, 1–6(–10) cm × 4–30 mm. |
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Inflorescences | corymboid dichasia of compact cymules; pedicels 1–5 mm. |
open, few-flowered cymes; pedicels (10–)30–60 mm. |
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Flowers | 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. |
5–7-merous; calyx tube shallowly campanulate, 1.5–5 mm, midveins slightly more prominent than commissural, veins not ridged or midveins with low, narrow ridges, lobes oblanceolate to spatulate or ± foliaceous, 8–25(–32) mm; corolla pale pink proximally, distally white, or white throughout except for eye, eye yellow, projections of eye into corolla lobes triangular, without a contrasting border, tube 3–6 mm, lobes oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate-obovate, 6–15 × 2–6 mm, apex rounded to obtuse; anthers becoming slightly recurved. |
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2n | = 64. |
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Sabatia macrophylla |
Sabatia calycina |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Marshes, swamps, wet woods, riverbanks, ditches. | |||||
Elevation | 0–60 m. (0–200 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
se United States
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AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; VA; West Indies (Cuba, Dominican Republic)
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Discussion | 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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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
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Synonyms | Gentiana calycina | |||||
Name authority | Hooker: Compan. Bot. Mag. 1: 171. (1836) — (as Sabbatia) | (Lamarck) A. Heller: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 24. (1894) — (as Sabbatia) | ||||
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