Amsonia is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1788.
 It is native primarily to North America with one species in East Asia and another in the eastern Mediterranean.
K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award Winner.
 Beard's research is reshaping critical debates about the evolutionary origins of mammals, including primates, routinely questioning current thinking about their geographical origins.
 Dr. Beard is the former Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh.
 He is currently Distinguished Foundation Professor, Senior Curator at the University of Kansas.
 He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China.
 Dr. Beard also authored the book The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans.
 Beard was also part of the research teams that discovered Teilhardina, the earliest primate ever found in North America, and Eosimias, one of the earliest higher primates yet discovered.
 He worked with NASA to scan a "Tyrannosaurus rex" skull.
 Beard received his PhD from the Functional Anatomy and Evolution Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989.
Syagrus is a genus of Arecaceae (palms), native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles.
 The genus is closely related to the "Cocos", or coconut genus, and many "Syagrus" species produce edible seeds similar to the coconut.

Question: Are both the Amsonia and the Syagrus genius found in North America?
Answer: no