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Asclepias viridiflora, is commonly known as green comet milkweed, green-flower milkweed, and green milkweed. It is a widely distributed species of milkweed ( Asclepias ), known from much of the eastern and central United States from Connecticut to Georgia to Arizona to Montana , as well as southern Canada and northern Mexico . [ 1 ]
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. However, as with many ...
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 ...
This is a list of species in the flowering plant genus Asclepias. As of February 2024 [update] , Plants of the World Online accepts 204 species in Asclepias . [ 1 ]
Asclepias asperula, commonly called antelope horns milkweed or spider milkweed, [2] is a species of milkweed native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Description [ edit ]
A. Adelmeria; Adonidia merrillii; Aglaia costata; Aglaia pyriformis; Alocasia atropurpurea; Alocasia clypeolata; Alocasia heterophylla; Alocasia micholitziana
Asclepias syriaca Microloma calycinum, Richtersveld, South Africa. The assignment of genera to tribes is based on Endress, Liede-Schumann and Meve (2014), [6] with synonyms from Plants of the World Online as of December 2023.
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] It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds ...