Rhexia nashii Small. Common name: Hairy Meadow-beauty, Maid Marian. Phenology: May-Oct. Habitat: Wet pine flatwoods and savannas; pond shores, bogs, marshes, ditches, wet roadsides. Distribution: Primarily a Southeastern Coastal Plain species: e. VA south to s. FL and west to se. LA.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Fl4, FNA10, GW2, K4, S, S13, Va, WH3, Kral & Bostick (1969), Nesom (2012a); = Rhexia mariana L. var. purpurea Michx. — F, G, RAB. Basionym: Rhexia nashii Small 1903
Links to other floras: = Rhexia nashii - FNA10
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect, often colonial perennial of wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pond shores, bogs, marshes, ditches and wet roadsides.
Stems: Stems simple or branched, covered with scattered gland-tipped hairs.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic to broadly lance-shaped, 1-2 1/2 in. long, finely toothed and hairy.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers on branches from upper leaf axils; rosy pink; consisting of 4 asymmetrical oblong-oval petals spreading from an urn-shaped tube, the petals and tube with gland-tipped hairs on the outer surface, and 8 stamens with yellow, curved anthers; the tube is rimmed with 4 narrowly triangular sepal lobes
Fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.
Comments: The similar R. mariana var. mariana (see p. xx) has smaller and duller pink petals that lack gland-tipped hairs.
Height: 1-3 ft.
plant sale text: Hairy Meadow-beauty produces pink flowers intermittently over many weeks. The flowers are followed by attractive reddish urn-shaped capsules. This SE native perennial is tolerant of a wide range of soils, from heavy-textured clay to highly organic soils and it is found in moist to wet sites including ditches, marshes and wet meadows. Over time, each plant slowly spreads to form a colony. While showy and easily grown, it is rarely offered for sale.
bloom table text:
description: Erect, often colonial perennial of wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pond shores, bogs, marshes, ditches and wet roadsides.
stems: Stems simple or branched, covered with scattered gland-tipped hairs.
leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic to broadly lance-shaped, 1-2 1/2 in. long, finely toothed and hairy.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers on branches from upper leaf axils; rosy pink; consisting of 4 asymmetrical oblong-oval petals spreading from an urn-shaped tube, the petals and tube with gland-tipped hairs on the outer surface, and 8 stamens with yellow, curved anthers; the tube is rimmed with 4 narrowly triangular sepal lobes
fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule enclosed in the urn-shaped tube.
comments: The similar R. mariana var. mariana (see p. xx) has smaller and duller pink petals that lack gland-tipped hairs.
cultural notes:
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native range: southeastern United States
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