BLUETS
			Houstonia caerulea
	HOME Botanical Terms Lists: Master Plant List Flowering Times List Flowers by Color/Type Endangered Species List Habitat List Use the 'back' button on your browser to return, if necessary.		Worth getting out that magnifying glass and looking at up close! FAMILY: Bedstraw Family (Rubiaceae) DESCRIPTION: This low-growing plant with erect tiny flowers and even tinier stems grow usually in clumps, else they might not get noticed. The flowers are less than a 1/2 inch wide are pale blue with golden centers and delecate and beautiful. FLOWERS: April to May HABITAT: Grassy slopes and fields, thickets and moist lawns with acid soils. Frequently in, or around mosses.   OTHER INFORMATION: The only medicine i've read about from this plant is that the Cherokee, who used to be prevalent in this area, used the slender rhizome-root tea to cure bed-wetting, though i can hardly imagine ripping up enough of this tiny flowers roots to garner enough tea. Maybe the act of harvesting this beautiful tiny child-like flower is traumatic enough to get the kids in line. Once you find a patch of these flowers along a path or road-edge, you'll always look for them. They're great, like the mosses that grow nearby, to picturing yourself about 10 inches tall and wading thru a field of them (before your nap in a moss bed). OTHER OBSERVATIONS: My observations about this plant can be found at: OFFSITE INFORMATION: If you're interested