Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae |
Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
Subclass | Asteridae | A large class that encompasses asters |
Order | Gentianales | Gentians, coffee, gardenias, frangipani, many others |
Family | Gentianaceae | About 1600 species of flowering plants from the genus Gentiana, named after the Illyrian king Gentius |
Genus | Sabatia | For Italian botanist Liberato Sabbati, who curated a botanical garden in Rome in the early 1700s and wrote an important work for the time, Hortus Romanus |
Species | kennedyana | For George Golding Kennedy (1841-1918), botanist and founding member of the New England Botanical Club |
Sabatia dodecandra (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. kennedyana (Fernald) H.E. Ahles
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