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