Sabatia campestris


Sabatia campestris is a species of Sabatia, native to the south-central United States, from Texas east to Mississippi and north to Iowa and Illinois. It is also locally naturalized in New England.
Sabatia campestris is an annual plant growing to tall with pairs of opposite leaves 8–40 mm long and 5–20 mm wide. The flowers are produced in open, long-stalked cymes at the top of the stems; the flower corolla is about 40 mm diameter, with five pink lobes with bluntly acute apices, and a contrasting bright yellow central 'eye'; they are hermaphrodite. The fruit is a capsule containing numerous small seeds.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are mainly fields, prairies, open ground, woods and roadside edges.

Cultivation and uses

Sabatia campestris is cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens, where it requires moist soil and partial to full sun.
It can be used for medical purposes as an anti-periodic and tonic. It is also possible to obtain a herbal tea from the plant.