RUBIACEAE - - Madder Family

Houstonia purpurea Linnaeus — Summer Bluet

Habitat:

Moist and dry woodlands and forests, roadbanks, thinner soils around rock outcrops, a variety of disturbed sites.Plants growing in high elevation and exposed sites are sometimes dwarfed, and in that respect only, superficially resemble H. montana.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].