Virginia Meadow Beauty (Rhexia virginica)
Virginia meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica) is a small perennial wildflower, typically found in areas of sandy acidic soil or in low wet meadows. I often find them around the edges of cranberry bogs (active or abandoned). The plants pictured here were seen blooming at the edges of the restored wetlands where the cranberry bogs once were along the Childs River in Falmouth. The hot pink to magenta colored flowers always seem so fragile to me. I often have a hard…