2022

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

Look for it usually in dry woodlands, often rocky (esp mafic rocks) or sandy, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (basal leaves absent at the onset of flowering)
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer
Lavender/White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4-lobed funnelform corolla
4 included stamens

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p180
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p158
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p105
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p263?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p305?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p166

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Houstonia tenuifolia   FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Houstonia longifolia   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hedyotis nuttalliana

INCLUDED WITHIN The Genera of Cinchonoideae (Rubiaceae) in the southeastern US (Rogers, 1987)
Hedyotis longifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-08-007:
Houstonia tenuifolia   FAMILY Rubiaceae