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Melastomataceae
Rhexia

not marked as a favorite taxon Rhexia lutea Walter. Common name: Yellow Meadow-beauty, Golden Meadow-beauty. Phenology: Apr-Jul (-Sep). Habitat: Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, seepage slopes, and bogs. Distribution: A Southeastern Coastal Plain species: e. NC south to ne. FL and Panhandle FL, and west to se. TX.

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ID notes: The only yellow-flowered Rhexia and also our most bushy-branched species.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl4, FNA10, GW2, K4, RAB, S, S13, Tx, WH3, Kral & Bostick (1969), Nesom (2012a). Basionym: Rhexia lutea Walter 1788

Links to other floras: = Rhexia lutea - FNA10

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Great Plains: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Bushy, colonial perennial of wet pine flatwoods and savannas, seepage slopes, and bogs in the Coastal Plain.

Stems: Stems 4-angled with subequal faces, branched, hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, to 1 1/4 in. long, 3-veined, with toothed or entire margins, covered with stiff yellow hairs.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers on stalks from leaf axils, yellow, to 1 in. wide, consisting of 4 broadly oval petals arising from a hairy, urn-shaped tube, and 8 stamens with straight yellow anthers.

Fruits: Fruit a ridged capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.

Comments:

Height: 4-18 in.

plant sale text: Yellow meadow-beauty is the only Rhexia species with yellow flowers. It is small and inconspicuous, usually less than 12 inches tall. Its preferred habitat is wet savannas, bogs and moist flatwoods of the Coastal Plain. Members of this genus have a distinctive urn-shaped seed capsule that Thoreau once compared to a little cream pitcher.

bloom table text:

description: Bushy, colonial perennial of wet pine flatwoods and savannas, seepage slopes, and bogs in the Coastal Plain.

stems: Stems 4-angled with subequal faces, branched, hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, to 1 1/4 in. long, 3-veined, with toothed or entire margins, covered with stiff yellow hairs.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers on stalks from leaf axils, yellow, to 1 in. wide, consisting of 4 broadly oval petals arising from a hairy, urn-shaped tube, and 8 stamens with straight yellow anthers.

fruits: Fruit a ridged capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.

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cultural notes:

germination code: 2,4

native range: southeastern United States



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