Sabatia

Sabatia {{{latin_name}}}	Rose pink
	Habit: Height: ⇕ Width: ⇔ Lifespan: ⌛ perennials, annuals, biennialsRH Origin: ✈ EN Amer., Caribbean, C Amer.RH Poisonous: ☠	Exposure: ☼ Water: ◍ moist soil Features: ✓ Hardiness: ☃ Bloom: ❀ USDA Zones: Sunset Zones:
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Sabatia (named after Liberatus Sabbati, an Italian botanist of the eighteenth century); also spelled Sabbatia. Gentianaceae. Hardy annual or biennial (rarely perennial by stolons) herbs, making showy garden or border plants, although little grown. Leaves opposite, sessile or clasping: fls. showy, rose-pink or -purple or white, in cymose panicles terminating the branches; calyx 5-12-parted, the lobes slender; corolla rotate, 5-12-parted, usually with a yellow eye: caps. globose or ovoid, 2-valved. — About 18 or 20 species, N. Amer. and Cuba, mostly on the coastal plain. Sabatias require a light sweet soil. Seed may be sown in fall or early spring. The plants are easily transplanted. Some of them grow in brackish places. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

17 species^RH, includingpdf file:

• Sabatia angularis
• Sabatia arenicola
• Sabatia arkansana
• Sabatia bartramii
• Sabatia brachiata
• Sabatia brevifolia
• Sabatia calycina
• Sabatia campanulata
• Sabatia campestris
• Sabatia capitata
• Sabatia difformis
• Sabatia dodecandra
• Sabatia formosa
• Sabatia gentianoides
• Sabatia grandiflora
• Sabatia kennedyana
• Sabatia macrophylla
• Sabatia quadrangula
• Sabatia stellaris
• S. paniculata, see Sabatia quadrangula

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• Sabatia lanceolata‎^CH

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

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