ExpandRead about Rhexia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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.)
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