Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native does real work: not just

does real work: not just nectar

All season they dangle from the branches like small paper lanterns

The result is one of the noblest of the Southern hardwoods

or in a soft native drift

Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native does real work: not justSabatia 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