Asclepias Milkweed. It is native to the american tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species other common names include bloodflower or blood flower cotton bush hierba de la cucaracha mexican butterfly weed redhead scarlet milkweed and wild ipecacuanha. Asclepias amplexicaulis the blunt leaved milkweed clasping milkweed or sand milkweed is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily asclepiadoideae apocynaceae.
Asclepias albicans whitestem milkweed asclepias amplexicaulis. It grows in dry prairies savannas open woods and fallow fields usually in sandy soil. Asclepias syriaca commonly called common milkweed butterfly flower silkweed silky swallow wort and virginia silkweed is a species of flowering plant it is in the genus asclepias the milkweeds this species is native to southern canada and of much of the conterminous eastern u s east of the rocky mountains excluding the drier parts of the prairies.
Asclepias also known as milkweed is a genus of about 200 species of herbaceous perennials in the family apocynaceae native to americas.
It grows 1 3 ft 0 30 0 91 m high and. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. Asclepias syriaca commonly called common milkweed butterfly flower silkweed silky swallow wort and virginia silkweed is a species of flowering plant it is in the genus asclepias the milkweeds this species is native to southern canada and of much of the conterminous eastern u s east of the rocky mountains excluding the drier parts of the prairies. Asclepias tuberosa the butterfly weed is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern north america.