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Family: Rubiaceae
Mid-Atlantic bloom time:
April - May
Mid-Atlantic fruit ripe:
May - June
Our most common bluets, with pale azure-blue petals and a yellow center. The much less common Common Bluets (Houstonia pusilla) flowers have a purple-red and yellow center and bloom slightly earlier.
16 May 2012
Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park (Central District), VA |
28 April 2015
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA |