Amsonia

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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. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Amsonia

Amsonia hubrichtii

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

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