Houstonia rubra
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Houstonia |
| Species: | H. rubra
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| Binomial name | |
| Houstonia rubra | |
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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
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Categories:
- Houstonia (plant)
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Chihuahua (state)
- Flora of Coahuila
- Flora of Durango
- Flora of Guanajuato
- Flora of Hidalgo (state)
- Flora of New Mexico
- Flora of Nuevo León
- Flora of Puebla
- Flora of Texas
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of Zacatecas
- Plants described in 1799
- Taxa named by Antonio José Cavanilles
- Rubioideae stubs