amsonia

Noun
  1. Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers;
    Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America (synset 111790995)
    is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    member holonym: amsonia tabernaemontana, blue star - subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
    belongs to: apocynaceae, dogbane family, family apocynaceae - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
    same as: genus amsonia

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