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Amsonia (bluestar)

Synonyms: Ansonia

Wikipedia Abstract

Amsonia is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1788. It is native primarily to North America with one species in East Asia and another in the eastern Mediterranean. Amsonia is named in honor of the American physician John Amson. Members of the genus are commonly known as bluestars.
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Species

Amsonia ciliata (fringe slimpod) (Attributes)
Amsonia elliptica
Amsonia fugatei (kearney's bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia grandiflora (Arizona bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia hubrichtii (Hubricht's bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia jonesii (Jones' bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia kearneyana (Kearney's blue-star) (Attributes)
Amsonia longiflora (tubular bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia ludoviciana (Louisiana bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia orientalis (Rhazya thracica) (Critically Endangered)
Amsonia palmeri (Palmer's bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia peeblesii (Peebles' bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia rigida (stiff bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia tabernaemontana (eastern bluestar) (Attributes)
Amsonia tharpii (feltleaf bluestar) (Vulnerable) (Attributes)
Amsonia tomentosa (woolly bluestar) (Attributes)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0