Rhexia petiolata Walter. Ciliate Meadow-beauty, Short Meadow-beauty, Fringed Meadow-beauty. Phen: May-Oct. Hab: Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pocosin borders, and ditches. Dist: A Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic: se. VA south to s. FL and west to se. TX.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Other Comments: The flowers are sessile, the petals ascending.
Synonymy: = C, Fl4, FNA10, G, GW2, K1, K3, K4, RAB, Tx, Va, WH3, Kral & Bostick (1969), Nesom (2012a); = Rhexia ciliosa Michx. – F, S, S13
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
Heliophily: 8
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