#houstonia

[uxbridge]

Azure bluets and woodland phlox

[the-diary-of-vivienne]

[unteriors]

N Broadway Street, Houstonia, Missouri.

[chickenmeow]

[faguscarolinensis]

Houstonia caerulea / Azure Bluet at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

It's March now! Here's what's poppin':

Tiny baby leaves - beech? Bluets! Houstonia caerulia Trout lilies my beloved Erythronium sp. Wild violets! Viola sororia* Something somebody wants to protect! They built this rock enclosure in the middle of the creekside trail. Probably wild iris sprouts - Iris sp. tbd.

[hankwag93]

Some bluet from a hike yesterday in search of wildflowers.

[reddirttown]

Language of Flowers: Houstonia

In the language of flowers, every day has its own designated flower. Today, November 18, that flower is Houstonia, which signifies contentment. Image from Wikipedia. Houstonia caerulea, also known as azure bluet and Quaker ladies, is native to the eastern United States and Canada. Well-loved for its delicate light-blue flowers, this tiny plant thrives in moist woodlands. The Cherokee used an…

[katytrailcreations]

Year 2022 Favorites/ThursdayDoors

[geopsych]

Wildflower woods.

[thebotanicalarcade]

Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide

[the-diary-of-vivienne]

[xrinsu]

tiny bluets for a long day

[chickenmeow]

[headspace-hotel]

tfw you are sososososo tiny and in the genus Houstonia

[vandaliatraveler]

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

- Ellis Peters

Photos from a hike this evening in Elizabeth’s Woods at Toms Run Preserve. From top: Azure bluet (Houstonia caerulea); a diminutive spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) hiding in the leaf litter; rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides); blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium); lavender variation of dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); golden ragwort (Packera aurea); Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum); blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides); and a very shy Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina).