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Yellow meadowbeauty

Rhexia lutea

Also called Golden Meadow Beauty, Yellow Meadow Beauty

Yellow meadowbeauty
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0
Family
Melastomataceae (Melastomat family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SE. U.S.A. to Texas
Climate
subtropical

About

Rhexia lutea, common name yellow meadow beauty, is a flowering plant in the Melastomataceae family. Rhexia lutea grows in the southeastern United States. It primarily flowers in savannah and pinelands.

It is the only member of the genus Rhexia to have yellow flowering. It has straight stamens.

Other Rhexia plants

Savannah meadowbeauty · Awnpetal meadowbeauty · Maryland meadowbeauty · Nuttall's meadowbeauty · Handsome Harry · Meadowbeauty

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhexia lutea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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