Rhexia

Rhexia
Rhexia alifanus, Liberty County, Florida, May 2008
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Melastomataceae
Genus:	Rhexia L.

Rhexia (Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty) is a genus of plants in the Melastomataceae family. Like many other flowers in that family, Rhexia virginica is buzz pollinated and has yellow stamens which change color following the first day of flowering.^[1] In North America, Rhexia is the only temperate genus in the family; the others are confined to warmer areas.^[2]

Species List

North America
Rhexia alifanus
Rhexia aristosa
Rhexia cubensis
Rhexia lutea
Rhexia mariana
Rhexia nashii
Rhexia nuttallii
Rhexia parviflora
Rhexia petiolata
Rhexia salicifolia
Rhexia virginica

References

1. ^ Larson, Brendon; Barrett, Spencer (April 1999), "The Pollination Ecology of Buzz-Pollinated Rhexia virginica (Melastomataceae)", American Journal of Botany 86 (4): 502–511, doi:10.2307/2656811, JSTOR 2656811, PMID 10205070, http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/86/4/502 
2. ^ Morley, R. J.; Dick, C. W. (2003), "Missing fossils, molecular clocks, and the origin of the Melastomataceae", American Journal of Botany 90 (11): 1638–44, doi:10.3732/ajb.90.11.1638, PMID 21653339 

Rhexia lutea, Liberty County, Florida, May 2008.

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