Rhexia × brevibracteata
Common Meadowbeauty
Rhexia virginica
L. Species
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- Botanical name
- Rhexia virginica
- Also known as
- Common Meadow Beauty, Common Meadowbeauty, Handsome Harry, Virginia Meadow Beauty, Virginia Meadowbeauty
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Genus
- Rhexia
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Common Meadowbeauty
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Rhexia virginica but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Rhexia alata
Rhexia purshii
Rhexia septemnervia
Rhexia stricta
Rhexia virginica var. purshii
Rhexia virginica var. septemnervia
Rhexia virginica var. virginica
Others in Rhexia
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