80

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare, endemic to GA, MS, LA

Look for it in open woodlands around outcrops of Lithonia granitic gneiss {other habitats}, per Weakley's Flora

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate to nearly opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Bluish
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Sepals minute
5-lobed salverform corolla
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Paired follicles

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p148

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Amsonia ludoviciana   FAMILY Apocynaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amsonia ludoviciana   FAMILY Apocynaceae