Amsonia

Accepted species 17 Documented here 7 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 17 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Amsonia tabernaemontana Walter 228 documented
Amsonia ciliata Walter 207 documented
Amsonia tomentosa Torr. & Frém. 111 documented
Amsonia palmeri A.Gray 23 documented
Amsonia longiflora Torr. 16 documented
Amsonia fugatei S.P.McLaughlin 7 documented
Amsonia tharpii Woodson 3 documented
Amsonia rigida Shuttlew. ex Small 2 below the evidence gate
Amsonia hubrichtii Woodson 1 below the evidence gate
Amsonia elliptica (Thunb.) Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia grandiflora Alexander 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia jonesii Woodson 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia kearneyana Woodson 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia ludoviciana Small 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia orientalis Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia peeblesii Woodson 0 below the evidence gate
Amsonia salpignantha Woodson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.