Amsonia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Amsonia

bluestar
willow amsonia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Amsonia

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Apocynales Bromhead
pub. 1838
  
   Familia  Apocynaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 143. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Dogbanes
  
   Genus  Amsonia Walter
common name: bluestar
  

Named members of the Genus Amsonia

1
   Species  amsonia (L.) Britt.
syn. Amsonia tabernaemontana var. tabernaemontana
2
   Species  arenaria Standl.
syn. Amsonia tomentosa var. stenophylla
3
   Species  brevifolia Gray
syn. Amsonia tomentosa var. tomentosa
4
   Species  ciliata Walt.
 
5
   Varietas  ciliata
common name: fringed bluestar
6
   Varietas  filifolia Woods.
syn. Amsonia ciliata var. tenuifolia
7
   Varietas  tenuifolia (Raf.) Woods.
common name: fringed bluestar
8
   Varietas  texana (Gray) Coult.
common name: Texas bluestar
9
   Species  eastwoodiana Rydb.
syn. Amsonia tomentosa var. stenophylla
10
   Species  fugatei S.P. McLaughlin
common name: San Antonio bluestar
11
   Species  glaberrima Woods.
syn. Amsonia tabernaemontana var. tabernaemontana
12
   Species  grandiflora Alexander
common name: Arizona bluestar
13
   Species  hirtella Standl.
 
14
   Varietas  pogonosepala (Woods.) Wiggins
syn. Amsonia palmeri
15
   Species  hubrichtii Woods.
common name: Hubricht's bluestar
16
   Species  illustris Woods.
common name: Ozark bluestar
17
   Species  jonesii Woods.
common name: Jones' bluestar
18
   Species  kearneyana Woods.
common name: Kearney's bluestar
19
   Species  longiflora Torr.
 
20
   Varietas  longiflora
common name: tubular bluestar
21
   Varietas  salpignantha (Woods.) S.P. McLaughlin
common name: tubular bluestar
22
   Species  ludoviciana Vail
common name: Louisiana bluestar
23
   Species  palmeri Gray
common name: Palmer's bluestar
24
   Species  peeblesii Woods.
common name: Peebles' bluestar
25
   Species  pogonosepala Woods.
syn. Amsonia palmeri
26
   Species  repens Shinners
common name: creeping bluestar
27
   Species  rigida Shuttlw. ex Small
common name: stiff bluestar
28
   Species  salicifolia Pursh
syn. Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
29
   Species  salpignantha Woods.
syn. Amsonia longiflora var. salpignantha
30
   Species  standleyi Woods.
syn. Amsonia palmeri
31
   Species  tabernaemontana Walt.
common name: willow amsonia, bluestar
  
 
32
   Varietas  gattingeri Woods.
common name: eastern bluestar
33
   Varietas  salicifolia (Pursh) Woods.
common name: eastern bluestar
  
34
   Varietas  tabernaemontana
common name: eastern bluestar
35
   Species  tharpii Woods.
common name: feltleaf bluestar
36
   Species  tomentosa Torr. & Fr�m.
 
37
   Varietas  stenophylla Kearney & Peebles
common name: woolly bluestar
38
   Varietas  tomentosa
common name: woolly bluestar

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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