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Largeflower rose gentian

Sabatia grandiflora

Largeflower rose gentian
Photo: Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!, CC BY-SA 2.0

Largeflower rose gentian (Sabatia grandiflora) is a native annual wildflower of the southeastern U.S. and Cuba, prized for its pink, yellow-centered blooms. It does best in moist, open, sunny sites such as wet meadows, pond edges and bog margins.

Family
Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially while flowering; it tolerates periodic flooding.
Soil
Moist, acidic, sandy or peaty soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; frost-sensitive as an annual, so sow after the last frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. U.S.A., Cuba
Climate
subtropical

About

Sabatia grandiflora is a flowering plant in the genus Sabatia. Commonly known as marsh-pink or largeflower rose gentian, the annual has pink flowers. It grows in parts of Florida and Alabama. The flowers have five pink petals and a yellow center.

Other Sabatia plants

Rosepink · Pelton's Rose Gentian · Shortleaf rose gentian · Coastal rose gentian · Slender rose gentian · Texas star · Appalachian rose gentian · Marsh rose gentian · Plymouth rose gentian · Fourangle rose gentian · Rose of Plymouth · Rose gentian

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sabatia grandiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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