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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 - 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Asclepias purpurascens - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias purpurascens, the purple milkweed, is a herbaceous plant species. It is in the genus Asclepias, making it a type of milkweed. It is native to the Eastern, Southern and Midwestern United States similar to the range of the common milkweed ( Asclepias syriaca ). The plant gets its name from the flowers that first develop a pink color but ...

  7. Asclepias californica - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias californica is native to California and northern Baja California. It is a flowering perennial with thick, white, woolly stems which bend or run along the ground. The plentiful, hanging flowers are rounded structures with reflexed corollas and starlike arrays of bulbous anthers. The flowers are dark purple. [1] It grows on dry slopes.

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