Sabatia campanulata, commonly known as the slender rose gentian or slender marsh-pink, is an herbaceous plant in the gentian family. It is native to the primarily to the southeastern United States. Populations extend northward, and become increasingly rare, up the Atlantic Coast to Massachusetts.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Slender Rose Gentian being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Sabatia grandiflora
- Sabatia stellaris
- Sabatia arkansana
- Sabatia brachiata
- Chironia purpurascens
- Sabatia formosa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Gentianaceae
- Genus
- Sabatia
- Species
- Sabatia campanulata
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