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Houstonia longifolia
Also called Long Leaved Bluets, Long Leaved Houstonia, Slender Leaved Bluets, Longleaf Bluet
Longleaf summer bluet is a small native perennial wildflower of the Coffee family, found across much of eastern North America in dry upland woods. It is grown mainly as a woodland or native-garden plant rather than as a houseplant.
Houstonia longifolia, commonly known as long-leaved bluet or longleaf summer bluet, is a perennial plant in the family Rubiaceae. It can be found throughout most of the Eastern United States and Canada. It has been reported from every state east of the Mississippi River except Delaware, plus North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with isolated populations in Kansas and Texas. Also, all Canadian provinces from Quebec to Alberta. It prefers upland woods in poor, dry, often sandy soil.
Needleleaf bluet · Azure bluet · Canadian summer bluet · Correll's bluet · Croft's bluet · Matted bluet · Southern bluet · Ouachita bluet · Houstonia palmeri · Greenman's bluet · Roundleaf bluet · Venus' pride
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Houstonia longifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
