Easterm Bluestar

Amsonia tabernaemontana
(Blue Dogbane)
Wildflower garden. Also useful as a cut flower.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Considertions

Poisonous foliage.

Wildlife

Avoided by mammalian herbivores.

Habitat

Moist hammocks, ruderal.

Did You Know?

  • Fall color, Showy flowers
  • he flowers attract long-tongued insects such as carpenter bees, hummingbird moths, and butterflies. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are also attracted to the nectar.  Not known to be a larval plant for monarch butterflies.