NameThatPlant.net: Sabatia kennedyana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae Go to FSUS key

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Read more about Plymouth Rose-gentian at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010c:

Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae

COMMON NAME:
Plymouth Rose-gentian, Plymouth Gentian

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010c:
Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana FAMILY Gentianaceae

3436

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Seasonally exposed drawdown banks of the Waccamaw River, in adjacent ditches and disturbed flats (in se. NC and ne. SC), and very rarely on shores of beaver ponds (in e. VA, by introduction), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink with a yellow eye sometimes bordered in red
Radially symmetrical
9-12 lobed rotate corolla

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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