NameThatPlant.net: Houstonia canadensis

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Houstonia canadensis FAMILY Rubiaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Canada Bluet at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Houstonia canadensis FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

COMMON NAME:
Canada Bluet

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image of Houstonia canadensis, Canada Bluet

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April

Flowers similar to H. purpurea, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.

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July

Our only Houstonia with basal leaves ciliate and present at flowering, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Houstonia canadensis FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Houstonia canadensis FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

2961

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia & possibly North Carolina

Documented growing wild in GA NC? -

Rare

Look for it in dry limestone barrens (sometimes locally abundant in shallow soils over limestone), limestone woodlands and outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & opposite
Margins entire

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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