Meaning | genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America. |
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Synonym | genus Amsonia |
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Member of | Apocynaceae, family Apocynaceae, dogbane family | chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers |
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Members | blue star, Amsonia tabernaemontana | subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps / clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes |
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Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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Spanish | amsonia, genus amsonia |
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Catalan | amsonia, Amsonia, genus amsonia |
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