Vintage print, Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty, 1900

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Vintage print, Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty, 1900, credit Antiche Curiosità©

 

Vintage print Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty, Rhexia Virginica, July-August, 1900, cm 20 x 14.

Cod. P. 285

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Vintage print, Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty, 1900, credit Antiche Curiosità©

 

Vintage print Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty, Rhexia Virginica, July-August, 1900, cm 20 x 14.

 

Common names: Handsome Harry[1], Virginia meadow-beauty

Rhexia virginica is a perennial herbaceous species.

“Erect, herbaceous, hermaphroditic, cymose perennials. Leaves opposite, sessile or petioles to 2 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, floral parts perigynous; stamens 8, anthers 1-locular, poricidal, usually with a basal spur. Capsules globose or subglobose; hypanthium cylindrical in anthesis, urceolate at maturity; stipes or pedicels 2-4.5 mm long; seeds brownish or yellowish, crescent-shape, papillose lined, 0.5-1 mm long except for R. petiolate and R. alifanus.” [2]

“Hirsute, usually branched perennial; roots usually tuberous; stems to 9 dm tall, faces equal, winged. Leaves elliptic or ovate, to 7 cm long and 2.6 cm wide, sparsely hirsute, 3-nerved, acute or aristate, ciliate-serrate, base cuneate. Sepals deltoid, 1.5-3 mm long, aristate; petals rose-purple, glandular hirsute marginally beneath, 10-25 mm long, usually mm long, usually glandular hirsute, neck shorter than body.” [2]

R. virginica is a rare species found in depressional wetlands occurring in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. [3]

It is found in wet ditches, savannas, flatwoods, and pond margins, and sometimes in standing water. [1] It also has been found in cypress-gum swamps, seepage bogs, lake shores, and other poorly drained situations. [4] It seems to prefer partial shade and wet sandy or peaty soils. [4] It can also occur in some human disturbed areas, especially those with wet conditions, including ditches, roadsides, clearings, power line corridors, and drained and bulldozed bogs. [4] Associated species include Eriocaulon, Xyris, Cypress, Liquidambar styraciflua, Cyrilla, Rudbeckia mohrii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, Sarracenia minor, Rhexia cubensis, Eragrostis refracta, Juncus abortivus, Juncus megacephalus, Juncus debilis, Lachnanthes caroliniana, Erigeron vernus, Ludwigia linearis, and Hypericum fasciulatum. [4]

In Florida flowering has been observed from June to October with peak inflroescence in August and September while fruiting has been observed from July through October.[4][1][5]

This species has been found in habitat that burns frequently–longleaf pineland. [4]

References:

  1.  Nelson, Gil. Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Coastal Regions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida. Guilford, CT: FalconGuide, 2006. 95. Print.
  2. Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 743. Print.
  3.  Edwards, A. L. and A. S. Weakley 2001. Population biology and management of rare plants in depression wetlands of the southeastern coastal plain, USA. Natural Areas Journal 21: 12-35.
  4. Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu
  5. Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/

 

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