Amsonia kearneyana
The story
In 1989, Kearney's bluestar was officially recognized as an endangered species when its wild population dwindled to a mere eight individuals in a single Arizona canyon. To save this rare member of the dogbane family from extinction, conservationists stepped in to manually propagate the plant, working against threats like flash floods and livestock habitat destruction to help its numbers recover.
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- Family
- Apocynaceae
How to use it
Kearney's bluestar has been manually propagated by conservationists in an effort to increase its critically low numbers and save the species from extinction.
Sources: Wikidata, en.wikipedia.org
Gardening tip
If you're looking to help Kearney's bluestar thrive, consider planting it in a protected area where it can avoid livestock activity and flash floods, as these are significant threats to its survival.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
About
Amsonia kearneyana is a rare species of flowering plant in the dogbane family known by the common name Kearney's bluestar. It is native to Arizona, where there is only one native population in the Baboquivari Mountains of Pima County. There may also be a population just south of the border in Sonora, Mexico. The plant was federally listed as an endangered species in 1989. At that time the global population of the plant was made up of eight individuals in a riparian canyon. Since that time the plant has been manually propagated in an attempt to increase its numbers. Threats to the tiny native population include habitat destruction from livestock activity and flash floods in the river canyon. Many of the plants cannot reproduce because their seeds are sterile and nonviable, but this is probably due to insect predation on the seeds as they develop.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Amsonia kearneyana
- Slug
- amsonia-kearneyana
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Amsonia
- Species
- kearneyana
- Wikidata QID
- Q4748802
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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