Blue Boneset
Tamaulipa azureanative · Central Texas
Blue Boneset is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 2–4 ft tall and 10 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms blue and purple in spring and summer. Good for birds, butterflies, nectar insects and small mammals.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spread
- 10 ft
- Bloom
- Spring, Summer · blue, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, loam, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports birds, butterflies, nectar insects and small mammals
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.