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Rhexia virginica - Virginia Meadow-beauty
Rhexia virginica - Virginia Meadow-beauty
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Sizes available: Landscape plug, 6.00 each or ten for 4.80, mix and match okay
Basics: zone 4-8, 12-24" x 12-24", full sun to part shade, four-petaled flowers from pale to medium. purply-pink with long yellow stamens bloom in summer at the tops of the plants, likes consistently wet sandy and gravelly soils with a pH on the low side.
Common names: Virginia Meadow-beauty, Handsome-harry
Family: Melastomataceae
Origin/Distribution: Occurs from Nova Scotia west into New York all the way to Wisconsin and south to Texas and northern Florida. This plant occurs in 33 states and is native to Maine.
Habitat: Prefers acidic, damp ground, low spots in meadows. sandy shorelines.
More: Good for pond edges, rain gardens, wet to moist spots with acidic soil and not too much organic matter. I think a nice combination would be Rhexia virginica, Penthorum sedoides and Coreopsis rosea.
Source: New England Wetland Plants, seed collected in the area around western Massachusetts.
Image credits: Both from Wikimedia Commons. The botanical illustration is attributed to Donovan Stewart and Helen B. Correll.
