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