ModelForms appear to be ignoring model field validators

[tarkatronic]

I've run into a case using a ModelForm where a field's validators are not being run.

For example:

models.py

import re
from django.core.validators import RegexValidator
from django.db import models

prefix_regex = re.compile(r'^[a-z]+[a-z0-9-]{3,61}$', re.IGNORECASE)

class Business(models.Model):
    ...
    url_prefix = models.CharField(..., validators=[RegexValidator(regex=prefix_regex, message='Please enter a valid prefix')])

forms.py

import floppyforms as forms
from .models import Business

class PrefixForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Business
        fields = ('url_prefix', )
        widgets = {'url_prefix': forms.TextInput}

Given this code, I wasn't getting any validation errors -ever-. I had to change the form to the following:

forms.py

import floppyforms as forms
from .models import Business, prefix_regex

class PrefixForm(forms.ModelForm):
    url_prefix = forms.RegexField(..., regex=prefix_regex)

    class Meta:
        model = Business
        fields = ('url_prefix', )

With this, I finally got an error of "Enter a valid value."

I couldn't find any documentation of this behaviour; only of the necessity to redefine widgets. Is there any way to get this validation to climb back up the chain, or do I need to redefine the validation for every model field using validators?