Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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2904

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Piedmont), primarily endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Look for it in wet pine flatwoods & savannas, pondshores, bogs, marshes, ditches, wet roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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full sun partial shade ...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

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 (1968) 136-01-006c:
 Rhexia mariana var. purpurea   FAMILY Melastomataceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Hairy Meadowbeauty, Maid Marian, Nash's Meadowbeauty

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image of Rhexia nashii, Hairy Meadowbeauty, Maid Marian, Nash's Meadowbeauty

Alistair Glen    gwn_rhexianashii

September    Pender County    NC

image of Rhexia nashii, Hairy Meadowbeauty, Maid Marian, Nash's Meadowbeauty

Will Stuart    wil_rnashii_0912_170

September    Richmond County    NC

North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands

This species has glandular hairs on the back side of the petals, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.