Rhexia cubensis Grisebach. Common name: West Indian Meadow-beauty. Phenology: Jun-Sep. Habitat: Limesink ponds (dolines). Drawdown zones of depression ponds such as Carolina bays or limesink ponds (dolines), Pond-cypress savannas and depression meadows; farther south (especially in FL) in wet pine flatwoods, dome swamps, hammock edges, pond and lake margins, pine savannas, ditches, and moist roadsides. Distribution: Se. NC south to s. FL and west to sw. MS; also in the West Indies.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl4, FNA10, GW2, K4, RAB, S, S13, WH3, Kral & Bostick (1969), Nesom (2012a). Basionym: Rhexia cubensis Griseb. 1866
Links to other floras: = Rhexia cubensis - FNA10
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of limesink ponds (dolines).
Stems: Stems angled, with 4 markedly unequal faces, branched or unbranched, covered with coarse, stiff, glandular hairs.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic, 3/4-1 1/2 in. long, with hair-tipped teeth on margins, sparsely hairy.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in few to several-flowered clusters; lavender-rose to almost white; 5/8-3/4 in. long; consisting of 4 broadly triangular to oval petals arising from a glandular-hairy, urn-shaped tube (which is longer than the floral tube in other Rhexias), and 8 stamens bearing curved, yellow anthers.
Fruits: Fruit a round capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.
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Height: 12-27 in.
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description: Erect perennial of limesink ponds (dolines).
stems: Stems angled, with 4 markedly unequal faces, branched or unbranched, covered with coarse, stiff, glandular hairs.
leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic, 3/4-1 1/2 in. long, with hair-tipped teeth on margins, sparsely hairy.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in few to several-flowered clusters; lavender-rose to almost white; 5/8-3/4 in. long; consisting of 4 broadly triangular to oval petals arising from a glandular-hairy, urn-shaped tube (which is longer than the floral tube in other Rhexias), and 8 stamens bearing curved, yellow anthers.
fruits: Fruit a round capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.
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