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Amsonia

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n.1.a genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; native from Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America.
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Noun1.Amsonia - genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America
genus Amsonia
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Apocynaceae, dogbane family, family Apocynaceae - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
Amsonia tabernaemontana, blue star - subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
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2:15 PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GENUS AMSONIA (APOCYNACEAE) IN NORTH AMERICA BASED ON rpoB-TRNC AND rpl16 SEQUENCE DATA Chris Doffitt* and Mark Fishbein, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 Amsonia is one of the few genera in the Apocynaceae with a primarily holoarctic distribution.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
2 June 1972 Amsonia tabernaemontana Apocynaceae Harrison, R.
Distribution records of Southern Indiana vascular plants by Thomas, William E. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
: Ganglion blocking effect of indole alkaloids contained Uncaria genus and Amsonia genus and related synthetic compounds on the rat superior cervical ganglion in situ.
Effects of Choto-san on hemorheological factors and vascular function ... by Yang, Q.; Goto, H.; Shimada, Y.; Kita, T.; Shibahara, N.; Terasawa, K. / Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
 
 
 
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