Savanna Meadow Beauty
Rhexia alifanus
Savanna meadow beauty is a tall, blue-leaved meadow beauty with luminous rose-pink, buzz-pollinated flowers in wet pine savannas, a graceful native for sunny bog gardens.
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.5–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX