Houstonia

Accepted species 24 Documented here 16 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 24 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Houstonia caerulea L. 2,502 documented
Houstonia pusilla Schoepf 1,053 documented
Houstonia purpurea L. 713 documented
Houstonia longifolia Gaertn. 435 documented
Houstonia procumbens (Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) Standl. 397 documented
Houstonia serpyllifolia Michx. 135 documented
Houstonia acerosa (A.Gray) Benth. & Hook.f. 105 documented
Houstonia micrantha (Shinners) Terrell 105 documented
Houstonia wrightii A.Gray 69 documented
Houstonia rubra Cav. 37 documented
Houstonia humifusa (Engelm. ex A.Gray) A.Gray 22 documented
Houstonia rosea (Raf.) Terrell 22 documented
Houstonia canadensis Willd. 9 documented
Houstonia subviscosa (C.Wright ex A.Gray) A.Gray 6 documented
Houstonia ouachitana (E.B.Sm.) Terrell 4 documented
Houstonia parviflora Holz. ex Greenm. 4 documented
Houstonia correllii (W.H.Lewis) Terrell 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia croftiae Britton & Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia macvaughii (Terrell) Govaerts ex Borhidi 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia palmeri A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia prostrata Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia sharpii Terrell 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia spellenbergii (G.L.Nesom & Vorobik) Terrell 0 below the evidence gate
Houstonia teretifolia Terrell 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.