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§1 Plant

Amsonia tabernaemontana Walter var. tabernaemontana

vernacular eastern bluestar — variety · Apocynaceae


USDA
AMTAT
GBIF
7221877
Rank
variety
eastern bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana var. tabernaemontana)
Platephotograph · chuck614CC BY-NC-ND 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

· 79 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 79 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 79 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 15 N
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N
New York view state ↗ 4 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 30 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/AMTAT ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7221877 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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