GENTIANACEAE GENTIAN FAMILY 
ROSE PINK 
Sabatia angularis (L.) Pursh 
The Gentian family furnishes some of our most beauti- 
ful wild and cultivated flowers. Most species have blue, 
late-blooming flowers whose beauty has in many cases 
caused their destruction. 
They have been victims of 
relentless flower hunters 
so that now scarcely any g 
grow where formerly grew 
hundreds. 
This handsome species oc- 
curs locally from New York to 
western Ontario and south to 
Florida, Louisiana and Okla- 
homa, preferring the rich soil 
of thickets and meadows. It 
grows from seed each year 
and may therefore not be 
found in the same place year 
after year. 
The sharply 4-angled stem 
is usually rather stout, much 
branched and 2-3 feet high. 
Leaves, all similar to those 
shown, and branches are op- 
posite. The whole plant is 
smooth, as is the rule in the 
Gentian family with but few 
exceptions. 
The fragrant rosy flowers 
are produced in July and August. The calyx is a short green bell 
topped by 5 narrow lobes. The deeply 5-parted corolla is rose- 
pink with a greenish star-shaped center. The 5 stamens are 
attached to the short corolla tube and have short filaments and 
long, curved or twisted anthers. There is 1 pistil with a simple 
ovary and a style 2-cleft about to the middle. Stigmatic sur- 
faces are along the inner side of each branch. The capsule fruit 
contains a great many small seeds. 
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