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  2. Asclepias tuberosa - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias revoluta Raf. Asclepias rolfsii Britton ex Vail. Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. [ 2] It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar.

  3. Asclepias curassavica - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, [ 3] is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias. [ 4] It is native to the American tropics [ 5] and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower, [ 3] cotton bush, [ 6] hierba de la cucaracha, [ 3 ...

  4. Asclepias syriaca - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. [ 1][ 2] It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. [ 3]

  5. Asclepias - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Most species are toxic to humans and many other species, primarily due to the presence of cardenolides.

  6. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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    Butterfly gardening provides a recreational activity to view butterflies interacting with the environment. Besides anthropocentric values of butterfly gardening, creating habitat reduces the impacts of habitat fragmentation and degradation. Habitat degradation is a multivariate issue; development, increased use of pesticides and herbicides ...

  7. Clitoria ternatea - Wikipedia

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    Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, [1] bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea or Darwin pea, [2] is a plant species belonging to the family Fabaceae, endemic and native to the Indonesian island of Ternate.

  8. Asclepias speciosa - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias speciosa is a specific monarch butterfly food and habitat plant. Additionally, phenylacetaldehyde produced by the plants attracts Synanthedon myopaeformis, the red-belted clearwing moth. [7] It is also a larval host for the dogbane tiger moth and the queen butterfly. [8]

  9. Asclepias incarnata - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias incarnata, the swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, swamp silkweed, or white Indian hemp, is a herbaceous perennial plant species native to North America. [ 3][ 4] It grows in damp through wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its flowers, which attract butterflies and other pollinators with nectar.

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