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bluestars
Amsonia
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. It was named in honor of the American physician John Amson. Members of the genus are commonly known as bluestars.
Species
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
eastern bluestar
speciesAmsonia tabernaemontana
Fringed Bluestar
speciesAmsonia ciliata
Hubricht's Bluestar
speciesAmsonia hubrichtii
woolly bluestar
speciesAmsonia tomentosa
Creeping Bluestar
speciesAmsonia repens
Ozark Bluestar
speciesAmsonia illustris
Tubular Bluestar
speciesAmsonia longiflora
Palmer's bluestar
speciesAmsonia palmeri
Jones' bluestar
speciesAmsonia jonesii
pond bluestar
speciesAmsonia rigida
Amsonia elliptica
speciesAmsonia elliptica
Tharp's Bluestar
speciesAmsonia tharpii
Woolly Slimpod
speciesAmsonia arenaria
Arizona bluestar
speciesAmsonia grandiflora
Louisiana Bluestar
speciesAmsonia ludoviciana
Fugate's Amsonia
speciesAmsonia fugatei
European bluestar
speciesAmsonia orientalis
Peebles' Bluestar
speciesAmsonia peeblesii
Kearney's Bluestar
speciesAmsonia kearneyana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71965.