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Sabatia calycina
COASTAL ROSE GENTIAN
Florida native
This short-lived perennial is frequent throughout much of Florida in floodplain forests, flatwoods and pond margins.
The range extends throughout the southeastern coastal plain from Texas to Virgina, and can also be found in Cuba.
The flowers have six or more white to pink petals with a yellow eye in the center and are on pedicels over 1 cm long.
The uppermost branches of Sabatia calycina are usually alternate and the overall height ranges from 10-30 cm (4-12 in.).
Sabatia calycina is a member of the Gentianaceae - Gentian family.
Other species of this genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
View Sabatia brevifolia - SHORTLEAF ROSEGENTIAN
View Sabatia stellaris - ROSE-OF-PLYMOUTH
View Sabatia grandiflora - LARGEFLOWER ROSEGENTIAN
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified:
May 31, 2008