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Fringed Bluestar in flower
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Fringed Bluestar

Amsonia ciliata

Blue flowers from April into May, worked by long-horned bees. It grows wild in 5 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to average soil
Size
2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
Flowers
Blue, Apr to May
Leaves
Deciduous
Kind
Wildflower

At its grown size

Fringed Bluestar, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Bees
9 kinds of native bees
On its flowers
Long-horned bee (Eucera rosae)

Grows well with

Facts from the Quercus record for Amsonia ciliata.