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Houstonia rosea
Rose bluet is a tiny native subshrub of the south-central and southeastern US, only a few centimeters tall, with small pink flowers. It is a low-growing wildflower best grown in open, sunny, well-drained sites.
Houstonia rosea, the rose bluet, is a North American plant species in the coffee family. It is a tiny plant only a few centimeters tall, with pink flowers. It is native to the south-central United States: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and southern Missouri.
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 rosea 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.
