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§1 Plant

Amsonia ciliata Walter

vernacular fringed bluestar — species · Apocynaceae


USDA
AMCI
GBIF
3169696
Rank
species
fringed bluestar (Amsonia ciliata)
Platephotograph · Lena ZappiaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Apocynaceae Juss.
Genus
Amsonia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 98 counties across 5 states/territories
Legend Native · 98 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 98 counties across 5 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 14 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N
Florida view state ↗ 27 N
Georgia view state ↗ 39 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/AMCI ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3169696 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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