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Sabatia bartramii Gentianaceae (Gentian) Family  Bartram's Rose Gentian is also known as Ten-Petal Marsh Pink, Marsh Pink, Large Marsh Pink and Rose Gentian. Plant is an upright, smooth perennial. Preferred habitat is savannas, wet pinelands and ditches. Distribution is throughout the Escambia flood plain. Leaves are opposite; unstalked; lower leaves spreading and spatula-shape to oblong; no teeth and no lobes. Upper leaves are usually pressed to the stem; clasping and becoming narrowly lance-like to long and slender upward. Flowers are in the leaf axil. Calyx is lobed; corolla is like a wheel (rotate); deeply parted into 7-12 lobes; rose to pink with a yellow spot bordered by red at the base of each lobe. Flowers occur in the summer. Fruit is a capsule. The related species S. dodecandra is similar but the flowers are not supported by leafy bracts and stem leaves are not clasping
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