PRAIRIE ROSE-GENTIAN
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Sabatia campestris  Nutt.
Cherokee County, Kansas
Annual
Height: 2.4 to 20 inches
Family: Gentianaceae - Gentian Family
Flowering Period:   June, July, August
Stems: Erect, 4-angled or narrowly winged, glabrous.
Leaves: Cauline, opposite, clasping, simple; blade ovate to lanceolate, .2 to 1 inch long, .12 to .6 inch wide, margins entire; lower leaves often smaller.
Inflorescences: Loosely arranged cymes forming corymbose-like cluster, terminal; branches mostly alternate. Pedicels (.4).8 to 4 inches.
Flowers: Radially symmetric; calyx tube campanulate, distinctly wing-angled, .12 to .3 inch, lobes 5, linear, .24 to 1 inch; corolla pink, rarely white, throat yellow and white, tube .16 to .4 inch, 5-lobed, lobes obovate, .4 to 1 inch long, apex acute; stamens 5, distinct; anthers bright yellow, sprially coiled after anthesis; pistil 1; style 1; stigma 2-lobed.
Fruits: Capsules, broadly ellipsoid, .3 to .43 inch. Seeds gray, tiny.
Habitat: Roadside ditches, prairies, moist limestone soil
Distribution: Southeast 1/4 of Kansas
Origin: Native
Comments: Sabatia, for Liberatus Sabbati, Italian botanist, and campestris, of the plains.

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