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Botanical Name: Amsonia
Common Name: Blue Star
Hardiness: Zone 3 - 9
Exposure: Full Sun/Partial Shade
Bloom Time: Early Summer
Flower Colours: Blue
Foliage:
Height: 2 - 3 ft
Spread: 12 - 15 inches
Soil Type: Any
Moisture: Moist
Care Level:
Amsonia Illustris

General Description:
Displays clusters of small blue, star shaped flowers. Good in the perennial border or in a damp wildflower meadow.

Care and Maintenance:
Easily grown in any moist, well drained soil that does not dry out in summer. Moderately to very frost hardy and generally dies back to root stock in winter.

Uses & Features:
Back border
Wildflower meadow
Cut flower
Varieties Available:
Amsonia Illustris