Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native sets the plant among the

sets the plant among the talas

The result is one of the noblest of the Southern hardwoods

Plant 'Anne Bidwell' where the late

and the shrub takes well to light shaping

or in a soft native drift

Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native sets the plant among theSabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana, the Plymouth rose gentian, is a globally rare perennial wildflower of the gentian family, treasured for large, starry, rose pink flowers carried on slender stalks above a low basal rosette. Each bloom opens flat to nine, ten, or eleven clear pink petals around a yellow eye ringed in red, a jewel like design more often expected of a cultivated exotic than a native pondshore plant. The genus name honors Liberato