Sabatia is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plant

Flowering plant

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s in the family Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae are a family of flowering plants of 87 genera and over 1500 species. Flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual with fused sepals and petals. The stamens are attached to the inside of the petals and alternate with the corolla lobes. There is a glandular disk at the base of the gynoecium,...

, native to eastern and central North America

North America

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 (Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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 west to Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 and New Mexico

New Mexico

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, and south to Florida

Florida

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 and Texas

Texas

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), Central America

Central America

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, and the Caribbean

Caribbean

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.

They are annual

Annual plant

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 or perennial

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

 herbaceous

Herbaceous

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 plants growing to 10-130 cm tall, with opposite leaves

Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....

. The flower

Flower

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s are produced in large cymes at the top of the stems; the flower corolla has 5–12 lobes, colored pink or white, with a contrasting central yellow 'eye'. The fruit

Fruit

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 is a capsule

Capsule (fruit)

In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. A capsule is a structure composed of two or more carpels that in most cases is dehiscent, i.e. at maturity, it splits apart to release the seeds within. A few capsules are indehiscent, for example...

 containing numerous small seed

Seed

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Selected species

Source: USDA, Arkansas Native Plant Society

• Sabatia angularis
  Sabatia angularis
  Sabatia angularis is a plant native to the United States.-External links:**...
  
  
• Sabatia arenicola
• Sabatia arkansana
  Sabatia arkansana
  Sabatia arkansana, commonly known as Pelton’s rose gentian, is an herbaceous annual in the gentian family. It was discovered in 2001 in several glades of the Ouachita Mountains in Saline County, Arkansas by John Pelton, a retired mechanic turned amateur photographer and naturalist...
  
  
• Sabatia bartramii
• Sabatia brachiata
• Sabatia brevifolia
• Sabatia calycina
• Sabatia campanulata
• Sabatia campestris
  Sabatia campestris
  Sabatia campestris is a species of Sabatia, native to the south-central United States, from Texas east to Mississippi and north to Iowa and Illinois...
  
  
• Sabatia capitata
• Sabatia difformis
• Sabatia dodecandra
• Sabatia formosa
• Sabatia gentianoides
• Sabatia grandiflora
• Sabatia kennedyana
• Sabatia macrophylla
• Sabatia quadrangula
• Sabatia stellaris
  Sabatia stellaris
  Sabatia stellaris Sabatia stellaris Sabatia stellaris (Rose of Plymouth, Marsh Pink, Salt-marsh Pink, Sea-pink; syn. Sabatia maculata (Benth.) Benth...