Fringed Bluestar

Amsonia ciliata Walt. Fl. Car. 98. 1788
Tabernaemontana angustifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 300. 1789. Amsonia angustifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 121. 1803. Ansonia ciliata Raf. New Fl. 4: 58. 1838. Ansonia angustifolia Raf. New Fl. 4: 58. 1838.
Stems 7-15 dm. tall, more or less densely pilose to glabrate or glabrous; leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, at least above, oblonglanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, 0.21 cm. wide, attenuate at each end, rather distinctly heterophyllous, the lower leaves much broader than the upper; inflorescence barely surpassing the foliage, bearing several to numerous, medium-sized, azure flowers; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, puberulent to glabrate; calyx-lobes ovatelanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 1-2 mm. long, glabrous, or with a few weak hairs; corolla glabrous externally, the tube 6-8 mm. long, about 1 mm. in diameter at the base, somewhat dilated above the insertion of the stamens, not constricted at the orifice, the lobes 7-8 mm. long, glabrous, somewhat spreading; follicles relatively slender, continuous, 9-1 1 cm. long, glabrous.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Distribution; North Carolina to Florida and Alabama; southeastern Texas.

Amsonia ciliata, the fringed bluestar, is a North American species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, first described in 1788.