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|accepted_name=Rhexia petiolata
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Carol.,
|place=130. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Fringed or short-stemmed meadow beauty
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhexia ciliosa
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Melastomataceae;Rhexia;Rhexia petiolata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Melastomataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhexia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhexia petiolata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Caudices </b>developed; roots short, fibrous, lignescent, non-tuberiferous. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or few-branched, 10–50 cm, faces subequal, flat to convex, angles weakly ridged, internodes glabrous, nodes sparsely hirsute, hairs eglandular. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.5–1.5 mm; blade ovate to short-elliptic or suborbiculate, 1–2 cm × 4–14 mm, margins serrate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, sparsely villous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> condensed, mostly obscured by foliaceous bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium globose, much longer than the constricted neck, 5–7(–9) mm, mostly glabrous except along calyx lobes; calyx lobes oblong-lanceolate, apices acute, spreading-ciliate, eglandular; petals ascending to divergent, lavender-rose, 1–2 cm; anthers straight, 1.2–1.8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.6 mm, surfaces pebbled or with ridges of domelike processes. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pine-cypress flats, cypress-pine-gum flats, cabbage palm hummocks, hillside bogs, swales, swamp and pocosin borders, borrow pits, ditches, roadsides, disturbed sites, sandy peat.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhexia petiolata
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhexia ciliosa
|basionyms=
|family=Melastomataceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Wet pine flatwoods and savannas, pine-cypress flats, cypress-pine-gum flats, cabbage palm hummocks, hillside bogs, swales, swamp and pocosin borders, borrow pits, ditches, roadsides, disturbed sites, sandy peat.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=
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|genus=Rhexia
|species=Rhexia petiolata
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