Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia grandiflora
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia grandiflora
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia grandiflora
COMMON NAME:
Largeflower Rose-gentian
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Keith Bradley kab_s_grandiflora_76871
May Palm Beach County FL
Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area
Typically a larger and coarser plant than S. stellaris, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_grandiflora_12
July
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia grandiflora
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia grandiflora
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia grandiflora
3777
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Wet flatwoods, marshes, cypress-gum depressions, limesink ponds, borrow pits, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia Coastal Plain
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink
with a yellow eye
Radially symmetrical
5-6 lobed rotate corolla
FRUIT:
Capsule
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