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Nature Photography by Paul Rebmann
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Rhexia mariana
MARYLAND MEADOWBEAUTY
PALE MEADOW BEAUTY
Florida native
A common plant of flatwoods, bogs and marshes throughout most of Florida, except for the southernmost peninsula. The range extends from Texas to Michigan through much of the eastern United States north to New York and Massachusetts.
The four petals that vary in color from pale purple to white easily fall off - especially in the afternoon. Pale meadow beauty has eight curved stamens with yellow anthers over 5mm long. The opposite leaves are three-viened, hairy and have finely toothed margins.
Rhexia mariana is a member of the Melastomataceae - Melastome family.
Other species of this genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
View Rhexia parviflora - WHITE MEADOWBEAUTY
View Rhexia alifanus - SAVANNAH MEADOWBEAUTY
View Rhexia nuttallii - NUTTALL'S MEADOWBEAUTY
View Rhexia petiolata - FRINGED MEADOWBEAUTY
View Rhexia virginica - HANDSOME HARRY
View Rhexia cubensis - WEST INDIAN MEADOWBEAUTY
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
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