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Houstonia procumbens
Also called Innocence, Wood Innocence
Roundleaf bluet is a small, low-growing native wildflower of the southeastern US, growing as an erect or creeping perennial or annual with tiny white four-petalled flowers. It does best in open, sandy, moist ground where it gets sun or light shade.
Houstonia procumbens, the roundleaf bluet, is a perennial species in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. Its native habitats include disturbed sites, and moist, open, sandy areas. Flowers bloom March to October.
This species can occur as an erect or creeping perennial or annual. Its leaves are oppositely arranged and are ovate to suborbicular in shape. They may reach a length between 7 and 10 millimeters in length and 4 to 10 millimeters wide. The flowers are white in color and have four petals.
Needleleaf bluet · Azure bluet · Canadian summer bluet · Correll's bluet · Croft's bluet · Matted bluet · Longleaf summer bluet · Southern bluet · Ouachita bluet · Houstonia palmeri · Greenman's bluet · Venus' pride
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Houstonia procumbens 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.
