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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Perennial Sea-pink at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010a:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra FAMILY Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia dodecandra
COMMON NAME:
Perennial Sea-pink, Large Marsh Rose-pink, Marsh Rose-gentian
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John B. Nelson jbn_7574233136_eb96107d41
July Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Resembling S. foliosa, but 1) leaves shorter than internodes 2) no stolons, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabatia dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-01-010a:
Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabbatia dodecandra
2858
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Tidal brackish and freshwater marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in GA
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (basal rosette absent or withered at flowering)
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink
(rarely white), with a yellow eye sometimes bordered in red
Radially symmetrical
6-10 lobed calyx
10(+)lobed rotate corolla
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011) p174
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p328
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p445
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p470
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p380
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p103
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p063
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p196
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p217
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