Bluets
By Lou Paun
Bluets (Houstonia) - A very pretty little American plant, H. coerulea forming small, dense, cushion-like tufts, and from late spring to autumn bearing crowds of tiny slender stems, about 3 inches high.
Rubiaceae / Madders Bluets (Houstonia caerulea)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 15cm in height (6inches).
Leaves: The leaf arrangement is opposite. Leaves can reach 1cm in length (0.5inches).
Bluets also go by several quaint names; "Quaker Ladies", "Innocence", and "Little-Washerwoman". The general identification rule is that these flowers have 4 petals, although in this photo some seem to have 5...
Bluets, Quaker Ladies, Houstonia serpyllifolia
Quaker Ladies or Bluets are mat-forming, summer-flowering perennials that thrive in damp, shady spots. Plant in acid soil in rock gardens, open woodlands or shaded paths.
Azure Bluet, Quaker Ladies
Scientific Name: Hedyotis caerulea (L.) Hook.
Synonym: Houstonia caerulea, Hedyotis caerulea, Houstonia caerulea var. faxonorum
Family: Rubiaceae ...
Mountain bluet is an excellent choice for the border or rock garden. Blue flowers open from attractive buds in late spring to midsummer, then leave behind a mass of vigorous, silvery-green woolly foliage and woolly stems.
K. acuminata (Acuminate Bluet) - K. fluviatilis (Kamapua'a)
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Prairie Bluets, Fine-leaf Bluets, Bluets,Prairie
Species:
Hedyotis nigricans ...
Centaurea montana [Perennial Cornflower; Mountain Bluet] Common Name List
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Centranthus ruber [Red Valerian, Jupiter's Beard] Common Name List
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Cheiranthus cheiri [Common Wallflower] Common Name List ...
the gardenia, bluet, madder, bedstraw, and partridgeberry. beans come from several species of the genus Coffea, bushes and trees of the Old World tropics; many are African. The medicine comes from the bark of evergreen trees ( ) native to the Andes.
blue porter weed, blue porterweed, blue rat's tail, blue snake-weed, blue snakeweed, bluetop, Cayenne snakeweed, dark blue snake weed, dark blue snake-weed, dark blue snakeweed, false verbena, nettleleaf velvetberry, nettleleaf vervain, rattail, ...
Drought-tolerant mainstays for mountain gardens include the deep blue-flowered mountain bluet, orange-yellow blanket flower and white snow-in-summer. Consider planting these with light-green leafed oregano.
Common names: Russian knapweed, Turestan thistle, creeping knapweed, mountain bluet, Russian cornflower, hardheads
Native To: Eurasia
Date of U.S. Introduction: Early 1900s ...
Description:
The ray flowers of the various species of Cornflower (also known as Bachelor's Buttons, Bluets, Centaureas, and Knapweeds) are deeply divided, giving the showy flowers a very frilled appearance.
It is so startlingly blue that many secondary common names allude to it: Bluebottle, Bluebow, Bluebonnet, Bluecap, Blue Buttons, Bluet, Blue Star Thistle, or Cyani.
Centaurea montana--Mountain Bluet, Perennial Cornflower
Chrysanthemum
Common Chrysanthemum Insects ...
Houstonia caerulea (Azure Bluet)
Jeffersonia diphylla (Twinleaf)
Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot)
Thalictrum thalictroides (Rue Anemone)
Trillium erectum (Red Trillium/Wake Robin)
Trillium grandiflorum (Common/White Trillium/Wake Robin) ...
Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.
How to Increase Your Amaryllis Bulb Supply ...
 See also: Bluets, Centaurea, Pink, Cornflower, Green
  
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