Sabatia campanulata Torr.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Gentianaceae

• Scientific Name

  Sabatia campanulata (L.) Torr.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial from a short branched caudex, slender, 2–6 dm, simple to freely and divaricately branched; lvs of the main axis below the branches oblong or lance-oblong, 2–4 cm, obtuse, widest actually or apparently below the middle, rounded to a sessile base, 3-nerved; upper lvs much narrower; cal-tube inconspicuously 10-nerved, the lobes linear, 7–15 (avg 13) mm; cor pink (white) with a yellow eye, the lobes oblanceolate, 10–15 mm, averaging less than half as wide; style usually cleft to slightly below the middle. Moist or wet places on the coastal plain from Mass. to n. Fla. and w. to La. and Ark., locally inland to Ky., Ind., and Ill. July, Aug. (S. gracilis)

• Common Names

  slender marsh-pink