SMALL BLUETS
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Houstonia pusilla Schoepf
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| [=Hedyotis crassifolia Raf.] |
| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 1/2-4 inches |
| Family: Rubiaceae - Madder Family |
| Flowering Period: March, April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Tiny bluets. | | Stems: | | Erect, ascending, or spreading, often branched at base, glabrous or pubescent. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, primarily basal, spoon-shaped to egg-shaped, 1/10 to 2/5 inch long, 1/10 to 3/10 inch wide; margins entire, often cilate; tips pointed; petioles absent or nearly as long as blade. | | Inflorescences: | | Solitary flowers, tiny, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Sepal lobes 4, oblong-lanceolate or braodly elliptic; corolla salverform, dark or light blue, rarely white; lobes 4, .1 to 1.5 inch long, glabrous; stamens 4. | | Fruits: | | Capsule, 1/10 to 1/5 inch wide, glabrous; seeds few to several, spherical, pitted on one side, dark. | | Habitat: | | Dry prairie hillsides, pastures, open woods, stream valleys, lawns, and roadsides. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Small bluets is easily overlooked, due to its small size. |
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