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The '''Bluestar''' ('''''Amsonia''''') is a [[genus]] in the family [[Apocynaceae]]. {{Inc| 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. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== == 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 ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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