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California milkweed: Native to central and southern California: Asclepias cordifolia: Heart-leaf milkweed: Native to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft). Asclepias cryptoceras: Pallid milkweed: Native to the western United States. Asclepias curassavica: Scarlet milkweed, tropical milkweed, bloodflower, bastard ipecacuanha
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 anther
Asclepias erosa is a species of milkweed known commonly as desert milkweed. It is native to southern California, Arizona, and northern Baja California, where it is most abundant in the desert regions.
Lygaeus kalmii kalmii Stal, 1874 – western small milkweed bug. Range includes Arizona (where it is very common in almost every sandy-grassy patch) and California, though California milkweed bugs are somewhat rare. The western subspecies has white spots and are seen with milkweed in bushy dry areas, but only for feeding, and in wet areas to ...
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 speciosa is a milky-sapped perennial plant in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), known commonly as the showy milkweed and is found in the western half of North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Description
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
Asclepias cordifolia is a species of milkweed commonly called heart-leaf milkweed or purple milkweed (a common name shared with another milkweed, Asclepias purpurascens). [2] It is native to the western United States (California, Nevada, Oregon), growing between 50 and 2,000 m (160 and 6,560 ft) elevation in the northern Sierra Nevada and ...