Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native they are the foliage that

they are the foliage that announces something is happening here

and the shrub takes well to light shaping

chinotto is a fruit for the kitchen and the glass

All season they dangle from the branches like small paper lanterns

rich violet flowers tightly in whorls above dark

Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana Southeastern Native they are the foliage thatSabatia 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