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Sabatia kennedyana |
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| | Funky twisting bud |
| Common name |
plymouth rose-gentian |
| Family |
gentianaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z7-10) |
| Flowers |
pink (summer) |
| Size |
12-24" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
moist soil; tolerates seasonal flooding |
Cheerful pale pink ray flowers on slender stems. Not fully hardy here in zone 6, but the flowering plant shown here overwintered just fine in our unheated garage, and bloomed in late July of its second year. The basal leaves are quite unobtrusive, easily missed in a jumble of alpine plants, and even the flower stems, when they start shooting up with their opposite, alternatingly rotating leaves, are easily missed. But the flowers aren't!
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Sabatia kennedyana
- Seed from NARGS '07/'08 exchange. Baggy 70F (3w) - 70F with light (5%G, 11-15d). Seedlings did not survive
- Same seed as above. Surface-sowed to pot at 70F (no G, 6w)
- Seed from HPS/MAG '12/'13 exchange. Baggy 70F with light (6%G, 13-27d)
- Same seed as above, cold-stored. Baggy 70F with light (21/++ G, 15-37d)
Seedlings are tiny and very slow-growing. Difficult to grow on.
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