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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.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
State grass Scientific name Image Year adopted California: Purple needlegrass: Nassella pulchra: 2004 [1] Colorado: Blue grama: Bouteloua gracilis: 1987 [2] Illinois: Big bluestem (state prairie grass) Andropogon gerardii: 1989 [3] Kansas: Little bluestem: Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) 2010 [4] Minnesota: Wild rice (state grain ...
Amsonia tabernaemontana, the eastern bluestar, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, found in central and eastern North America. [1]
Amsonia tomentosa is a species of flowering plant native to the southwestern United States (S California, S Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, W Texas) and northern Mexico . [1] [2] Its common names include woolly bluestar and gray amsonia. Amsonia tomentosa is a short, woody plant with many erect stems rarely reaching half a meter in height ...
Amsonia tharpii is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, known by the common names Tharp's bluestar and feltleaf bluestar. It is native to New Mexico and Texas in the United States. [2] This plant is a perennial herb with a woody taproot. [2] It grows up to about 20 centimeters tall. [1]