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Amsonia jonesii is a plant in the bluestar genus Amsonia known by the common name Colorado desert bluestar. It is in the dogbane family, but a separate genus. It grows in the deserts surrounding the Colorado River in the United States. It is now grown as a garden plant for its masses of light blue flowers and low water usage.
The Colorado Desert is the low area of the Colorado River Valley and surrounding hills and mountains. Plants must survive its hot and dry conditions. [2]: 7 Temperatures can be greater than 120 °F (49 °C). [2]: 7 Annual precipitation is sometimes less than 3 inches (7.6 cm).
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 .
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
On the North American plains, prairies, grasslands, and meadows at least 11% of grasses are non-native. [2] North America is considered a hotspot for many invasive species of grasses, which threatens all of the endangered native grass species and potentially threatens other grass species. Conservation tactics and management policies can help ...
Amsonia hubrichtii, commonly known as Hubricht's bluestar, [2] Arkansas bluestar, [3] or thread-leaf bluestar, [4] is a North American species of perennial flowering plant in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family, first described in 1943. [5] It is native to Oklahoma and Arkansas in the south-central United States. [6] [7] It is commonly used as an ...
Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Flora of the Sonoran Desert Region; U.S. Wildflowers Reference List: Arizona — Reference List of websites for Arizona Wildflower Identification. Pima Community College. Common Wildflowers of Tucson. Floras - Arizona Native Plant Society
Amsonia kearneyana is a rare species of flowering plant in the dogbane family known by the common name Kearney's bluestar. It is native to Arizona, where there is only one native population in the Baboquivari Mountains of Pima County. There may also be a population just south of the border in Sonora, Mexico. [1]