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§1 Plant
Amsonia illustris Woodson
vernacular Ozark bluestar — species · Apocynaceae
§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
· 65 counties across 5 states/territories§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 65 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Benton 29015
- Camden 29029
- Carter 29035
- Clay 29047
- Cole 29051
- Crawford 29055
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Gasconade 29073
- Greene 29077
- Hickory 29085
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Lincoln 29113
- Maries 29125
- Marion 29127
- McDonald 29119
- Miller 29131
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Polk 29167
- Pulaski 29169
- Randolph 29175
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Washington 29221
- Webster 29225
- Wright 29229
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMIL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/11029079 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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