Rose-pink Sabatia is a wildflower with showy, fragrant, 1 in. single pink flowers with five petals and a greenish-yellow star-shaped eye. The flower cluster has opposite branching. Flowers are followed by seed capsules (1/3” long), each having numerous tiny seeds which are easily scattered by wind when ripe to new locations. Although rose pink is biennial, it will easily self-seed in the garden, often forming perennial-like colonies producing abundant bloom each year. Opposite egg-shaped leaves, 0.7 to 1.5 in. long with a heart-shaped clasping base. Plant them in woodland borders, marshes, and thickets. This plant was selected as the 2020 NC Wildflower of the Year , a program managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden with some financial support from the Garden Club of North Carolina.
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.