Amsonia

Amsonia subsp. var.
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The Bluestar (Amsonia) is a genus in the family Apocynaceae.

[hide]Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Amsonia, (named for Charles Amson, colonial physician in eighteenth century). Called also Ansonia. Apocynacese. Plants sold for border planting, mostly among shrubbery, but little known in cultivation. Tough-barked perennial herbs with alternate narrow lvs. and terminal panicles of blue or bluish narrow- limbed small fls. in May and June, the inside of the corolla-tube bearing reflexed hairs and also the 5 stamens: fr. two long and slender many-seeded follicles.— About a dozen species in E. U. S. and E. Asia. Prop, mostly by dividing the clumps; also by seeds, and by cuttings in summer. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

• Amsonia ciliata - Fringed Bluestar
• Amsonia elliptica - Japanese Bluestar
• Amsonia fugatei - San Antonio Bluestar
• Amsonia grandiflora - Arizona Bluestar
• Amsonia hubrichtii - Hubricht's Bluestar
• Amsonia illustris - Ozark Bluestar
• Amsonia jonesii - Jones' Bluestar
• Amsonia kearneyana - Kearney's Bluestar
• Amsonia longiflora - Tubular Bluestar
• Amsonia ludoviciana - Louisiana Bluestar
• Amsonia orientalis - European Bluestar
• Amsonia palmeri - Palmer's Bluestar
• Amsonia peeblesii - Peebles' Bluestar
• Amsonia repens - Creeping Bluestar
• Amsonia rigida - Stiff Bluestar
• Amsonia tabernaemontana - Eastern Bluestar
• Amsonia tharpii - Feltleaf Bluestar
• Amsonia tomentosa - Woolly Bluestar

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

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