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Desert Bluestar, Woolly Bluestar
Amsonia tomentosa
This small, deciduous perennial is an attractive addition in your landscape for both the fresh white to lavender flowers and the leaves which seem to resist any effects of summer heat. Use in a mass planting to enhance the impact of the flowers or place among other low growing shrubs and perennials.
- Plant type: Perennial, Native
- Maintenance level: Low
- Water requirement: Low
- Sun exposure: Full, Reflected Heat
- Height range: 6–24 Inches
- Width range: 6–18 Inches
- Canopy value: 1 ft²
- Growth rate: Medium
- Seasonal habit: Deciduous
- Flower color: Blue, White, Purple
- Flower season: Spring, Summer, Winter
- Fruit color: Red, Brown
- Fruit season: Spring, Summer
- General foliage color: Grey, Green
- Fall foliage color: Brown
- Hardiness cold tolerance: 0 °F
- Soil preference: Sand, Rocky, Well Drained, Dry
- Native location: Southwest US [Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Utah] and Northern Mexico
- PH preference: Not Particular
- Sunset zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- USDA hardiness zone: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
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