Asclepias syriaca L.
ASCLEPIADACEAE
- Milkweed family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Asclepias syriaca L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 214 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Common milkweed
English name: common milkweed English name: silkweed
Spanish name: asclepias
French name: petits cochons
Italian name: Ascledias siriana
German name: Seidenpflanze
Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
= Asclepias intermedia Vail
= Asclepias kansana Vail
= Asclepias syriaca L. var. kansana (Vail) Palmer & Steyerm.
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Asclepias syriaca L. var. kansana (Vail) Palmer & Steyerm.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Gentianales
Family: Asclepiadaceae
Genus: Asclepias
Species:
Page counter: 2611 ( AVG: 223.35 / 292.911 )
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Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Monaco di Baviera, Orto Botanico di Monaco-Nymphenburg, Monaco, Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 30.
Asclepias syriaca
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Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Monaco di Baviera, Orto Botanico di Monaco-Nymphenburg, Monaco, Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Asclepias syriaca
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 28.
Asclepias syriaca
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Orto Botanico., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Monaco di Baviera, Orto Botanico di Monaco-Nymphenburg, Monaco, Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Orto Botanico., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Asclepias syriaca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV), CAN (MB, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK)
Map for Asclepias syriaca L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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More species:
1) Asclepias syriaca L. var. kansana (Vail) Palmer & Steyerm. [150]
2) Asclepias tuberosa L. [514]
3) Asclepias tuberosa L. ssp. terminalis Woodson [149]
4) Asclepias uncialis Greene var. ruthiae (Maguire) E. Sundell [128]
5) Asclepias verticillata L. [399]
6) Asclepias viridiflora Raf. var. lanceolata Torr. [167]
7) Asclepiodora viridis (Walter) A. Gray [128]
8) Asemeia grandiflora (Walter) Small [92]
9) Askellia nana (Richardson) W.A. Weber ssp. ramosa (Babc.) W.A. Weber [96]
10) Asparagus plumosus Baker [250]
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