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§1 Plant
Houstonia micrantha (Shinners) Terrell
vernacular southern bluet — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Houstonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 113 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 113 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Greene 05055
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Sevier 05133
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HOMI4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5338880 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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