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Plant Characteristics

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Scientific Names

Read about Rhexia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Rhexia (Greek, rupture, referring to its supposed properties of healing). Melastomaceae. Meadow Beauty. Low perennial often bristly herbs suitable for border and wild-garden planting. Leaves opposite, sessile or short-petioled: fls. terminal, solitary or cymose; calyx-tube urn-shaped, adherent to the ovary below, and continued above it, persistent, 4-cleft at the apex; petals 4, oblique, falling early: stamens 8: caps. 4-celled, with 4- to many-seeded placentae.—About 12 species, N. Amer. Rhexia virginica is found wild in company with side-saddle plants (Sarracenia purpurea) and cranberries in the low meadows of Massachusetts. It is what would be called a bog-plant. It is a pretty, low-growing, tuberous-rooted plant blooming in summer and chiefly interesting as being one of few species of a genus belonging to a family almost wholly composed of shrubby plants from tropical countries, such as Centradenia, Pleroma, and Medinella. It increases by means of tubers and seeds, and under suitable conditions soon makes large clumps. Tubers potted in the autumn and kept in a coldframe force nicely in springtime. (T. D. Hatfield.) The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 falling early: stamens 8: caps. 4-celled, with 4- to many-seeded
 placentae.—About 12 species, N. Amer.
+Rhexia virginica is found wild in company with side-saddle plants
+(Sarracenia purpurea) and cranberries in the low meadows of
+Massachusetts. It is what would be called a bog-plant. It is a pretty,
+low-growing, tuberous-rooted plant blooming in summer and chiefly
+interesting as being one of few species of a genus belonging to a
+family almost wholly composed of shrubby plants from tropical
+countries, such as Centradenia, Pleroma, and Medinella. It increases by
+means of tubers and seeds, and under suitable conditions soon makes
+large clumps. Tubers potted in the autumn and kept in a coldframe force
+nicely in springtime. (T. D. Hatfield.)
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