Sabatia campanulata(L.) Torr.

slender rose gentian

WFO wfo-0001063268 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. a Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205652593
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Jessica
fig. b Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82264368
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Jessica
fig. c Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79638277
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. d Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78510775
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. e Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19980919
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. f Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19978455
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. g Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18754808
Sabatia campanulata, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. h Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27690821

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Sabatia campanulata is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMississippiNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginia DelawareDistrict of Columbia
Native distribution of Sabatia campanulata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 63 in flower of 64 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Sabatia campanulata 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. 63 of 64 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chironia campanulata L.
  • Chironia campanulata var. gracilis (Michx.) Pers.
  • Chironia gracilis Michx.
  • Chironia tenuifolia Eckl. ex Prain
  • Sabatia campanulata f. albina Fernald
  • Sabatia campanulata f. campanulata
  • Sabatia campanulata var. campanulata
  • Sabatia campanulata var. gracilis (Michx.) Fernald
  • Sabatia gracilis (Michx.) Salisb.
  • Sabatia tracyi Gand.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.