HyperDic: genus_amsonia

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Amsonia:
NOUNplantgenus Amsonia, Amsoniagenus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers
English > genus Amsonia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninggenus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America.
SynonymAmsonia
Member ofApocynaceae, family Apocynaceae, dogbane familychiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers
Membersblue star, Amsonia tabernaemontanasubshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps / clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishamsonia, genus amsonia
Catalanamsonia, Amsonia, genus amsonia

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