Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Blue flowers in April, worked by long-horned bees. It grows wild in 50 of Tennessee’s 95 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, April
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
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
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Robin's-plantain
Heartleaf AsterFacts from the Quercus record for Amsonia tabernaemontana.