When does shortleaf rose gentian bloom in Florida?

Most often in August. Across 174 dated, research-grade observations of Sabatia brevifolia in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly August to December.

Peak August In flower 174 Examined 176 State Florida

Flowering 174 in flower of 176 examined

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Proportion of examined Sabatia brevifolia in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	2	too few examined
Feb	2	2	too few examined
Mar	2	2	too few examined
Apr	2	2	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	1	2	too few examined
Jul	1	1	too few examined
Aug	21	21	100%	85% to 100%
Sep	64	64	100%	94% to 100%
Oct	32	33	97%	85% to 99%
Nov	29	29	100%	88% to 100%
Dec	18	18	100%	82% to 100%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Sabatia brevifolia in Florida observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 174 of 176 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Florida found Sabatia brevifolia in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Florida, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Sabatia brevifolia

shortleaf rose gentian

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Florida. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.