Taxon: Rhexia mariana L.

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See also subordinate taxa:

• Rhexia mariana var. interior (no accessions)
• Rhexia mariana var. mariana (no accessions)
• Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• dull meadow-pitcher   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  
• Maryland meadow-beauty   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  
• pale meadow-beauty   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  
• showy meadow-pitcher   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 [as R. interior]) – English   [Rhexia mariana var. interior]
  
• ankarblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana [s.], Massachusetts [e.], New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Pennsylvania [s.e.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Kansas, Missouri [s.e.], Oklahoma [s.e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Kral, R. & P. E. Bostick. 1969. The genus Rhexia (Melastomataceae). Sida 3:408–411.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rhexia mariana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rhexia mariana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rhexia mariana.

Synonyms:

• Rhexia interior Pennell [≡ Rhexia mariana var. interior]
  
• Rhexia lanceolata Walter [= Rhexia mariana var. mariana]
  
• Rhexia mariana var. lanceolata (Walter) Wood & McCarthy [= Rhexia mariana var. mariana]
  
• Rhexia ventricosa Fernald & Griscom [≡ Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa]
  

Check other web resources for Rhexia mariana L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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