NameThatPlant.net: Rhexia nashii

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhexia nashii FAMILY Melastomataceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhexia nashii FAMILY Melastomataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 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

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.

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

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

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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