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Houstonia purpurea
Also called Summer Bluet
Houstonia purpurea (formerly Hedyotis purpurea) is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names Venus's pride, woodland bluet, and purple bluet. It is native to the eastern United States from eastern Texas and Oklahoma east to Florida and Pennsylvania, with scattered populations in Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, New York State and New England.
There are three varieties of this species. The rarest, var. montana (Roan Mountain bluet) is a federally listed endangered species of the United States. It occurs only in the southern Appalachians along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. It is named for Roan Mountain, one of a very few mountain peaks where it grows.
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 · Roundleaf bluet
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Houstonia purpurea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
