Flora of North America species comparison

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Rhexia petiolata

fringe meadowbeauty, fringe or short-stem meadow beauty
Caudices

developed;

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

unbranched or few-branched, 10–50 cm, faces subequal, flat to convex, angles weakly ridged, internodes glabrous, nodes sparsely hirsute, hairs eglandular.
Leaves

petiole 0.5–1.5 mm;

blade ovate to short-elliptic or suborbiculate, 1–2 cm × 4–14 mm, margins serrate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, sparsely villous adaxially.
Inflorescences

condensed, mostly obscured by foliaceous bracts.
Flowers

hypanthium globose, much longer than the constricted neck, 5–7(–9) mm, mostly glabrous except along calyx lobes;

calyx lobes oblong-lanceolate, apices acute, spreading-ciliate, eglandular;

petals ascending to divergent, lavender-rose, 1–2 cm;

anthers straight, 1.2–1.8 mm.
Seeds

0.6 mm, surfaces pebbled or with ridges of domelike processes.
2n

= 22.

Rhexia petiolata
Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pine-cypress flats, cypress-pine-gum flats, cabbage palm hummocks, hillside bogs, swales, swamp and pocosin borders, borrow pits, ditches, roadsides, disturbed sites, sandy peat.
Elevation 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MD; MS; NC; SC; TX; VA
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Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Melastomataceae > Rhexia
Sibling taxa
R. alifanus, R. aristosa, R. cubensis, R. interior, R. lutea, R. mariana, R. nashii, R. nuttallii, R. parviflora, R. salicifolia, R. ventricosa, R. virginica
Synonyms R. ciliosa
Name authority Walter: Fl. Carol., 130. (1788)
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