Flora of North America species comparison

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Rhexia lutea

yellow meadowbeauty, yellow or golden meadow beauty
Caudices

developed;

roots short, fibrous, lignescent, non-tuberiferous.
Stems

branched proximally, 10–40 cm, faces subequal, flat to convex, 4-angled distally from midstem, internodes and nodes hirsute, hairs eglandular.
Leaves

subsessile;

blade spatulate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 2–3 cm × 2–8 mm, 2 lateral veins marginal on narrower leaves, margins subentire to shallowly serrate, surfaces loosely strigose, hairs yellowish.
Inflorescences

diffuse, not obscured by bracts.
Flowers

hypanthium globose, much longer than the constricted neck, 6–7 mm, hirsute to villous, eglandular;

calyx lobes triangular, apices aristate;

petals ascending, golden-yellow, 1–1.5 cm;

anthers straight, 2 mm.
Seeds

0.7 mm, surfaces with few straight ridges of papillae along crest, sides with lower, more scattered papillae or ± smooth.
2n

= 44.

Rhexia lutea
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, slash pine scrub, cypress pond margins, seepage slopes, bogs, clearings, openings, sandy peat.
Elevation 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX
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Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Melastomataceae > Rhexia
Sibling taxa
R. alifanus, R. aristosa, R. cubensis, R. interior, R. mariana, R. nashii, R. nuttallii, R. parviflora, R. petiolata, R. salicifolia, R. ventricosa, R. virginica
Name authority Walter: Fl. Carol., 130. (1788)
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