Virginia Meadow-beauty

Virginia Meadow-beauty

Virginia Meadow-beauty Rhexia virginica grows in moist sandy meadows of eastern North America. Four thin ridges run down the stem which is somewhat hairy. The plant has simple paired leaves and pink flowers with four lopsided petals and eight stamens which have long thin curving pollen sacs or anthers. Most species in the Meadow-beauty Family are tropical. [CH] {GW}