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