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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|name = bluestars
|image = Amsonia-tabernaemontana-flowers.JPG
|image_caption = ''[[Amsonia tabernaemontana]]''
|display_parents = 2
|parent_authority = M.E.Endress
|taxon = Amsonia
|authority = [[Thomas Walter (botanist)|Walter]]<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?577 |title=Genus: ''Amsonia'' Walter |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2003-03-14 |accessdate=2011-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012191729/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?577 |archive-date=2012-10-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|synonyms =*''Ansonia'' <small>Raf.</small>
|synonyms_ref = <ref name=r>{{cite web
|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=8432
|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
|accessdate=May 21, 2014}}</ref>
|}}
[[File:Amsonia tabernaemontana single paired follicle detached from plant (pale side).jpg|thumb|Single paired follicle (i.e. V-shaped pair of follicles) detached from specimen of ''[[Amsonia tabernaemontana]]'' ]]
'''''Amsonia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[Apocynum|dogbane]] family, [[Apocynaceae]], first described as a genus in 1788. It is native primarily to [[North America]] with one species in [[East Asia]] and another in the eastern [[Mediterranean]].<ref name=r/><ref name=s>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=101507 Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 156 <big>水甘草属</big> shui gan cao shu ''Amsonia'' Walter, Fl. Carol. 98. 1788. ]</ref> It was named in honor of the American physician [[John Amson]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pringle |first1=James S. |title=History and Eponymy of the Genus Name ''Amsonia'' (Apocynaceae) |journal=SIDA, Contributions to Botany |date=2004 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=379–387 |url=https://archive.org/details/biostor-159970 |access-date=9 November 2023 |language=English}}</ref> Members of the genus are commonly known as '''bluestars'''.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=30130 |taxon=''Amsonia'' |accessdate=2011-09-23}}</ref>
;Species<ref name=r/><ref>[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Amsonia Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]</ref><ref name=s/>
# ''[[Amsonia ciliata]]'' <small>Walter</small> &ndash; fringed bluestar – SE US, S Great Plains
# ''[[Amsonia elliptica]]'' <small>(Thunb. ex Murray) Roem. & Schult.</small> &ndash; Japanese bluestar – China, Japan, Korea
# ''[[Amsonia fugatei]]'' <small>S.P.McLaughlin</small> &ndash; San Antonio bluestar – New Mexico
# ''[[Amsonia grandiflora]]'' <small>Alexander</small> &ndash; Arizona bluestar – Arizona, Sonora, Durango
# ''[[Amsonia hubrichtii]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; Hubricht's bluestar – Arkansas, Oklahoma
# ''[[Amsonia illustris]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; Ozark bluestar – Mississippi Valley, also Nevada
# ''[[Amsonia jonesii]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; Jones' bluestar – Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado
# ''[[Amsonia kearneyana]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; Kearney's bluestar – Baboquivari in Pima Co. in Arizona
# ''[[Amsonia longiflora]]'' <small>Torr.</small> &ndash; tubular bluestar – Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Coahuila
# ''[[Amsonia ludoviciana]]'' <small>Vail</small> &ndash; Louisiana bluestar – Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia
# ''[[Amsonia orientalis]]'' <small>Decne.</small> &ndash; European bluestar – Greece, Turkey
# ''[[Amsonia palmeri]]'' <small>A.Gray</small> &ndash; Palmer's bluestar – Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua
# ''[[Amsonia peeblesii]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; Peebles' bluestar – Arizona
# ''[[Amsonia repens]]'' <small>Shinners</small> &ndash; creeping bluestar – E Texas, SW Louisiana
# ''[[Amsonia rigida]]'' <small>Shuttlw. ex Small</small> &ndash; stiff bluestar – from Georgia to Louisiana
# ''[[Amsonia tabernaemontana]]'' <small>Walter</small> &ndash; eastern bluestar – S + C + E United States
# ''[[Amsonia tharpii]]'' <small>Woodson</small> &ndash; feltleaf bluestar – W Texas, SE New Mexico
# ''[[Amsonia tomentosa]]'' <small>Torr. & Frém.</small> &ndash; woolly bluestar – SW US; Chihuahua
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