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|familia=Apocynaceae
| name = ''Amsonia''
|genus=Amsonia
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| image_caption = ''Amsonia hubrichtii''
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|image_caption=Amsonia hubrichtii
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The '''Bluestar''' ('''''Amsonia''''') is a [[genus]] in the family [[Apocynaceae]].
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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.
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==Cultivation==
===Propagation===
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== Species ==
== Species ==
*''[[Amsonia tomentosa]]'' - Woolly Bluestar
*''[[Amsonia tomentosa]]'' - Woolly Bluestar
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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