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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.
 
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.
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==Cultivation==
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| name = ''Amsonia''
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
 
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
 
| ordo = [[Gentianales]]
 
| familia = [[Apocynaceae]]
 
| genus = '''''Amsonia'''''
 
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The '''Bluestar''' ('''''Amsonia''''') is a [[genus]] in the family [[Apocynaceae]].
 
  
 
== Species ==
 
== Species ==
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*''[[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
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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Amsonia hubrichtii


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


Read about Amsonia in the 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.


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