Sabatia brevifolia
Sabatia brevifolia
Found in pine savannas, dry prairies, and moist to scrubby flatwoods. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
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Recorded in 2 Alabama counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food. 134 animals.
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
Who uses this plant?
1CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL
Genus host records with ranges including AL · Sabatia
- Stenoptilodes taprobanesNarrow Plume Moth
5BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Sabatia
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimNo records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- GENTIANACEAE
Conservation status
| Alabama rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G3G4 |
| AL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Alabama Plant Atlas
- USDA PLANTS
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications