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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
Ecology. 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]
Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [ 4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
Rumex acetosella, commonly known as red sorrel, sheep's sorrel, field sorrel and sour weed, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Native to Eurasia and the British Isles, [ 2] the plant and its subspecies are common perennial weeds. It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and it ...
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