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Asclepias species produce their seeds in pods termed follicles. The seeds, which are arranged in overlapping rows, bear a cluster of white, silky, filament-like hairs known as the coma [ 13 ] (often referred to by other names such as pappus , "floss", "plume", or "silk").
The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae.Formerly, it was treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family.
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 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 .
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 californica is an important monarch butterfly caterpillar host plant, and chrysalis habitat plant. The cardiac glycosides caterpillars ingest from the plant are retained in the butterfly, making it unpalatable to predators. [4] Asclepias californica attracts a wide variety of pollinators including bees and other butterfly species. Its ...
This milkweed, Asclepias erosa, is a perennial herb with erect yellow-green stems and foliage in shades of pale whitish-green to dark green with white veining.It may be hairless to very fuzzy.
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.