NameThatPlant.net: Houstonia nigricans var. nigricans

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Houstonia nigricans var. nigricans FAMILY Rubiaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Hedyotis nigricans var. nigricans

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hedyotis nigricans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Houstonia angustifolia

COMMON NAME:
Diamond-flower, Glade Bluet, Prairie Bluet

To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Houstonia nigricans var. nigricans, Diamond-flower, Glade Bluet, Prairie Bluet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hoan2_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Houstonia nigricans var. nigricans FAMILY Rubiaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Hedyotis nigricans var. nigricans

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hedyotis nigricans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Houstonia angustifolia

2963

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in limestone barrens, limestone glades, limestone rocky bluffs, blackland prairies, longleaf pine sandhills, coastal dunes, coastal grasslands, scrubby pine flatwoods, 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.

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White/Lavender
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!