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Melastomataceae
Rhexia

not marked as a favorite taxon 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. Virginia south to s. Florida and west to se. Louisiana; rare disjunct in w. Louisiana.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Fl4, FNA10, GW2, K1, K4, NS, POWO, 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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image #1 of Rhexia nashii© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Rhexia nashii© Floyd A. Griffith | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Rhexia nashii© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Rhexia nashii© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Rhexia nashii© Scott Ward
image #6 of Rhexia nashii© Scott Ward
image #7 of Rhexia nashii© Bobby Hattaway | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Rhexia nashii© Scott Ward
image #10 of Rhexia nashii© Collectors SOS | Original Image ⭷
image #12 of Rhexia nashii© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

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.

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native range: southeastern U.S.