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Meadow beauty in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Rhexia nashii

 

Meadow beauty

Rhexia is a perennial that grows from tuberous swellings on fibrous roots, with simple leaves and four-petalled flowers (usually lilac-pink or white) with prominent stamens. 'Rhexia Nashii' has lilac-pink flowers in Summer.

 
plant Features
  • Meadow beauty likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Meadow beauty likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Meadow beauty is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Meadow beauty likes moist and rich

    Moist and rich

 
plant information

Common name

Meadow beauty

Latin name

Rhexia nashii

type

Herbaceous Perennial

family

Melastomataceae

ph

5.5 - 7.3 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Meadow beauty likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Meadow beauty is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Meadow beauty likes moist and rich

    Moist and rich

  • Water

    Meadow beauty likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
  •  
    When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Meadow beauty is 0.70meters x 0.70meters 0.70 M 0.70 M

Rhexia nashii

Rhexia is a perennial that grows from tuberous swellings on fibrous roots, with simple leaves and four-petalled flowers (usually lilac-pink or white) with prominent stamens. 'Rhexia Nashii' has lilac-pink flowers in Summer.


Flowering

From Late Spring TO Early Autumn

Rhexia flowers are purple, white, or pink in late Spring and through Summer.

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Plant in a sunny position in moist free-draining, acidic sandy or gravelly soil

 

Propagating by seed

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Rhexia self-seed - and to the extent that it can be a problem, having new plants growing where they are not wanted!

 
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