Houstonia rubra
Houstonia rubra | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Rubiaceae |
Genus: | Houstonia |
Species: | H. rubra |
Binomial name | |
Houstonia rubra | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Houstonia rubra, the red bluet, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae.[2] It is a small herb with white to pink to red to reddish-purple flowers, native to the southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico: Coahuila, Nuevo León, Hidalgo, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Puebla, Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, Arizona, New Mexico, southeastern Utah and western Texas.[1][3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".[permanent dead link ]
- ^ Cavanilles, Antonio José. 1799. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 5: 48, pl. 474, f. 1.
- ^ http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Houstonia%20rubra.png [bare URL image file]
- ^ Southwest Environmental Information Network
- ^ Encyclopedia of Life