Spigelia marilandica

Spigelia marilandica, the woodland pinkroot[1] or Indian pink[2][3] is a herbacious perennial wildflower in the Loganiaceae family[2] native to inland areas of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States.

[3] It flowers in late spring and early summer[3] and tends to be found in low moist woods, ravines, or stream banks in partial or full shade.

Spigelia marilandica produces flowers in late spring and early summer with sporadic blooms in the fall, and it tends to be found in low moist woods, ravines, or stream banks in partial or full shade.

Leaf proximals 3 or 4 pairs per stem, sessile, blade usually ovate to lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 4–12 × 1–5 centimeters long, base rounded to cuneate; distals opposite.

[7] Spigelia marilandica is closely related to both S. alabamensis and S. gentianoides [8] from which it is easily distinguished from the latter two species when in flower by its red and yellow (versus pink) corollas.

Indian pink