Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Apocynaceae
Amsonia ciliata +

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Apocynaceae
Amsonia ciliata +

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Apocynaceae
156-01-002
Amsonia ciliata

Common Name:
Sandhills Bluestars

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in sandhills, per Weakley's Flora



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...Dry

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate or subopposite

Flower:
Spring
Blue
5
5-merous
Sepals minute
salverform corolla

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Paired follicles

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p278
Gardening with Native Plants of the South p148
All About SC Wildflowers p096
Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p038
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p153




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"...it requires little reflection to realize that, at the very beginning, the human race had almost nowhere to look for help in treating an illness or assuaging a hurt except to the world of plants — and that remains largely true even today." — Richard M. Smith, Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains