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  2. Asclepias exaltata - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias exaltata (poke milkweed or tall milkweed) is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, native to eastern North America. Poke Milkweed's green and white flowers bloom from late spring to early summer. The plant's leaves can become quite large on plants growing in moist shaded conditions.

  3. Asclepias - Wikipedia

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    The Miwok people of northern California used heart-leaf milkweed (A. cordifolia) for its stems, which they dried and used for cords, strings and ropes. [ 28 ] The fine, silky fluff attached to milkweed seeds, which allows them to be distributed long distances on the wind, is known as floss.

  4. Asclepias californica - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Are tussock and monarch caterpillars in a fight over milkweed ...

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    The milkweed tussock moth (Euchaetes egle) is native to this area. Its range in the U.S. extends from Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas.

  6. Asclepias incarnata - Wikipedia

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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 .

  7. Asclepias albicans - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias albicans is a species of milkweed known by the common names whitestem milkweed and wax milkweed. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of California, Arizona, and Baja California. This is a spindly erect shrub usually growing 1 to 3 meters (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 10 feet) tall, [1] but known to approach 4 metres (13 feet). The ...

  8. Asclepias subulata - Wikipedia

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    This milkweed is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico. It grows in dry slopes, mesas, plains and desert washes. [2] Researchers in Bard, California, tested the plant as a potential source of natural rubber in 1935. [3] Asclepias subulata is a larval host for the monarch butterfly. [4]

  9. Asclepias cordifolia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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