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The plant is difficult to cultivate and does not grow well in containers. [5] [6] In cultivation, this species favors quickly draining soil that is high in inorganic matter, such as sand and rock chips. It can grow in loam and clay, if provided with adequate drainage and frequent dryness. [7]
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 nyctaginifolia is a species of milkweed known by the common name Mojave milkweed. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to New Mexico, where it grows mainly in desert habitat. This is a perennial herb growing up to about half a meter in maximum height when erect, but often bending or drooping.
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 ...
Asclepias lanceolata, the fewflower milkweed, is a species of milkweed that is native to the coastal plain of the United States from New Jersey to Florida and Southeast Texas. [1] A. lanceolata is an upright, perennial plant that can grow between 3 and 5 feet tall, with red-orange flowers blooming in the summer months. [ 2 ]
Asclepias perennis, also known as aquatic milkweed or white swamp milkweed (not to be confused with swamp milkweed; Asclepias incarnata), is a North American species of milkweed that is found throughout the Coastal Plain from eastern Texas to southern South Carolina, northward along the Mississippi River, and into the Ohio Valley of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Asclepias stenophylla is a herbaceous perennial growing from a carrot-like or tuberous, vertical root that is 3 to 10 dm long. Each plant typically has one or two stems with many thin leaves. It has milky sap. [3] The leaves are linear in shape and 6 to 15 cm long and 5 to 8 mm wide.
Habit includes riparian woodlands, floodplain meadows, cienega edges, canyons, and arroyo bottoms. It is considered rare in Arizona, and restricted to the borderlands. This species is a known host plant to the Monarch Butterfly. Because it serves as a nesting ground for the Monarch's larvae, it is a vital component in preventing the extinction ...