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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Houstonia lanceolata
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hedyotis purpurea
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-08-005?:
Houstonia purpurea FAMILY Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Houstonia lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Hedyotis purpurea var. calycosa
COMMON NAME:
Lanceleaf Bluet, Midwestern Summer Bluet, Glade Mountain Houstonia, Venus's Pride
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hola5_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Houstonia lanceolata
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Houstonia purpurea var. calycosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hedyotis purpurea
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-08-005?:
Houstonia purpurea
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Houstonia lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Hedyotis purpurea var. calycosa
2960
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: calcareous prairies and barrens, dry woodlands, banks, rock outcrops, shallow soils around mafic and calcareous rock outcrops, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Lavender/White
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4-lobed funnelform corolla
4 included stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p038
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p305
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