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Houstonia micrantha
Southern bluet is a small, low-growing wildflower native to the south-central and southeastern United States, with tiny pale blue flowers. It is a native wildflower of open, moist-to-dry woodland edges and meadows rather than a common garden plant, so it is best grown in a native or wildflower setting.
Houstonia micrantha, the southern bluet, is a plant species in the coffee family.
It is native to the south-central United States where it has been found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, southern Missouri, Alabama, western Tennessee, extreme western Florida (Escambia County) plus a few isolated locations in Georgia.
Needleleaf bluet · Azure bluet · Canadian summer bluet · Correll's bluet · Croft's bluet · Matted bluet · Longleaf summer bluet · Ouachita bluet · Houstonia palmeri · Greenman's bluet · Roundleaf bluet · Venus' pride
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Houstonia micrantha 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.
