BLUE STAR

Amsonia tabernaemontana

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The dusty-blue flowers are about 1/2 across.


FAMILY:
Dogbane family (Apocynaceae)

DESCRIPTION:
A leafy perennial, with little-branched erect stems filled with milky sap. The blue-white flowers are about 1/2 across and followed by erect cylindrical pods. The leaves are alternate and ovate and highly variable in width.

FLOWERS:
April

HABITAT:
Generally rich deciduous woodland areas of bottomlands and wooded slopes of the piedmont and mountain regions.

 

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