Blue Dogbane

(Amsonia tabernaemontana)

 

Color Photograph: Midwestern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service, Midwest National Technical Center.

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Amsonia hubrichtii

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Blue Dogbane (Amsonia tabernaemontana Walt.)

Identification: Flowers bright blue, star-shaped, arranged in a rounded cluster. Seed pods thin and elongate, occurring in pairs. Leaves elongate, pointed at their apices and crowded along the stem. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Texas and Nebraska in the west to New York and Massachusetts in the east, southward to Florida.

Habitat: Blue Dogbane is most common along riverbanks, but is also found in woods.

Flowering period: April to May.

Similar Species: Blue Dogbane is one of several species of the genus Amsonia primarily separated by the shape of their leaves. A color photograph of the related species Amsonia hubrichtii from Arkansas and Oklahoma is shown on the bottom left.

Blue Dogbane (Amsonia tabernaemontana)

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