Virginia Meadow Beauty
Rhexia virginica
Damp-soil charmer with rose-pink four-petaled flowers and showy, curved yellow anthers. Distinctive urn-shaped seed capsules follow the bloom. Leaves have a pleasant, slightly sour taste good in salads, and the roots are eaten raw as a nut-like nibble.
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV