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2. Asclepias speciosa - Wikipedia

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   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

3. Asclepias - Wikipedia

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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

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. Asclepias curassavica - Wikipedia

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   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

6. List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name

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   This region has 4,004 species of plants from 1201 genera in 182 families. Many lack common names. ... California milkweed (Asclepias californica) ... showy milkweed ...

7. Monarch butterfly - Wikipedia

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   Similar conditions exist for showy milkweed (A. speciosa) in Michigan and for green antelope horn milkweed (A. viridis), where it grows in the Southern Great Plains and the Western United States. [ 77 ] [ 234 ] Further, the seeds of A. syriaca and some other milkweeds need periods of cold treatment ( cold stratification ) before they will ...

8. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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   Similar conditions exist for showy milkweed (A. speciosa) in Michigan and for green antelopehorn milkweed (A. viridis) where it grows in the southern Great Plains and the western United States. [47] In addition, the seeds of A. syriaca and some other milkweeds need periods of cold treatment (cold stratification) before they will germinate. [48]

9. Asclepias erosa - Wikipedia

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   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 ...