NameThatPlant.net: Rhexia ventricosa

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Rhexia ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Swollen Meadowbeauty at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Rhexia ventricosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Rhexia interior

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 136-01-008:

Rhexia ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae

COMMON NAME:
Swollen Meadowbeauty

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image of Rhexia ventricosa, Swollen Meadowbeauty

Bruce A. Sorrie bas_rhexia_ventricosa1

July Scotland County NC

Four stem faces at mid-stem ~ equal, almost flat, the angles sharp or winged, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Rhexia ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Rhexia ventricosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Rhexia interior

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 136-01-008:
Rhexia ventricosa FAMILY Melastomataceae

2903

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine flatwoods and savannas, clearings in cypress-hardwood swamps, ditches, wet roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lavender-rose
4-merous
4 petals
8 stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Our Great-Aunt Narcissa ... knew the names of all the wild flowers and she taught the names of them all to us — the small blue anemone that bloomed in ravines in February, the first of our blossoms and the purest blue, the flower of faith, of new hope; the bloodroot, the May apple, the wild yellow azalea, the corpse flower, the trailing arbutus, the purple gentian — the last blossoms of the autumn, struggling to perfection in the last minutes of existence." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton

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