Rhexia alifanus (savannah meadowbeauty)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhexia alifanus, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS — fig. a Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205623711

Rhexia alifanus, photographed by Joseph Aubert — fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201319137

Rhexia alifanus, photographed by Lauren McLaurin — fig. e Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196270055

Rhexia alifanus, photographed by Kim — fig. g Kim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146634788

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Rhexia alifanus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Alabama	ALA	NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida	FLA
Georgia	GEO
Louisiana	LOU
Mississippi	MSI
North Carolina	NCA
South Carolina	SCA
Texas	TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 428 in flower of 503 examined

30%

84%

96%

82%

90%

78%

82%

Proportion of examined Rhexia alifanus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	3	too few examined
Feb	0	1	too few examined
Mar	0	2	too few examined
Apr	3	10	30%	11% to 60%
May	127	152	84%	77% to 89%
Jun	150	157	96%	91% to 98%
Jul	82	100	82%	73% to 88%
Aug	38	42	90%	78% to 96%
Sep	18	23	78%	58% to 90%
Oct	9	11	82%	52% to 95%
Nov	1	1	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Rhexia alifanus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 428 of 503 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Rhexia glabella Michx.
Rhexia glabella var. alifanus (Walter) Pursh

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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