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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Melastomataceae, Melastome or Meadowbeauty family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

Common Name:
Ciliate Meadowbeauty, Short-stemmed Meadowbeauty, Fringed Meadowbeauty, Bog Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia petiolata FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia petiolata FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia petiolata 136-01-001 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pocosin borders, and ditches
Common (rare in Piedmont), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Smooth Meadowbeauty, Savanna Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia alifanus FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia alifanus FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia alifanus 136-01-002 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in pine flatwoods & savannas, pocosin borders - more able to tolerate merely moist soils than other Rhexia species
Common, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Yellow Meadowbeauty, Golden Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia lutea FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia lutea FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia lutea 136-01-003 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods & savannas, seepage slopes, & bogs
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in NC-SC), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Awned Meadowbeauty, Bristly Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia aristosa FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia aristosa FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia aristosa 136-01-004 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in clay-based Carolina bays, depression meadows, and limesink ponds (dolines)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name: West Indies Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia cubensis FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia cubensis FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia cubensis 136-01-005 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in limesink ponds (dolines)
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name: Maryland meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia interior FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia mariana var. interior FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in moist to wet areas, ditches, prairies
Native: south central US

Common Name:
Pale Meadowbeauty, Maryland Meadowbeauty, Dull Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia mariana var. mariana FAMILY: Melastomataceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Rhexia mariana var. mariana FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia mariana var. mariana 136-01-006a FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in pine flatwoods, wet meadows, bog margins, ditches, wet roadsides, often weedy
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
White Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia mariana var. exalbida FAMILY: Melastomataceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Rhexia mariana var. mariana FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia mariana var. exalbida 136-01-006b FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods and savannas, wet meadows, ditches, and wet roadsides
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Hairy Meadowbeauty, Maid Marian, Nash's Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia nashii FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia nashii FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia mariana var. purpurea 136-01-006c FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods & savannas, pondshores, bogs, marshes, ditches, wet roadsides
Common (rare in Piedmont), primarily endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Virginia Meadowbeauty, Wingstem Meadowbeauty, Deergrass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia virginica FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia virginica FAMILY: Melastomataceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia virginica var. virginica 136-01-007 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods & savannas, pond shores, bogs, & ditches
Common (uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia






Common Name:
Swollen Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia ventricosa FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhexia ventricosa 136-01-008 FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in pine flatwoods & savannas, clearings in cypress-hardwood swamps, ditches, wet roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas

Common Name: Nuttall's Meadowbeauty
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rhexia nuttallii FAMILY: Melastomataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhexia nuttallii FAMILY: Melastomataceae
Look for it in pine flatwoods, bogs
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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