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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.
Native Americans used fiber in the stems for rope, basketry, and nets. [2] Some Native Americans used the milky sap for medicinal purposes. [2]Although care is needed to distinguish the species from highly toxic species in the genus, [3] the young leaves and seed pods of A. speciosa can be boiled and eaten.
Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. [ 4 ]
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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 .
Alternatively, native milkweed species (such as showy milkweed, narrowleaf milkweed, and desert milkweed for California [10]) are suggested for butterfly gardens. [11] It also attracts other members of the Danainae subfamily, such as the queen. Collage of arthropods using tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) for nectar or as a hunting ground
A. cinerea leaves. Asclepias cinerea is a perennial herb that is grass-like in appearance with a thin, smooth stem that reaches 2 ft (0.61 m) in height. Leaves are 2 to 4 in (51 to 102 mm) long, linear, narrow, glabrous, and oppositely arranged.
Asclepias viridis is a species of milkweed, a plant in the dogbane family known by the common names green milkweed, green antelopehorn and spider milkweed. [2] [3] [4] The Latin word viridis means green. The plant is native to the midwestern, south central and southeastern United States, as well as to the southeastern portion of the western ...