Asclepias White Flowers. Sun part sun soil moisture. Genus asclepias can be evergreen or deciduous perennials or subshrubs with simple entire leaves and umbel like clusters of small distinctively shaped flowers followed by paired fruits containing seeds embedded in silky fibres.
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Across 5 cm of tiny flowers each adorned with 5 upright pale green petals that cup upward over 5 white hoods. The white milkweed thrives in open upland forests and woodland edge habitats and requires some shade. Milkweed is the host plant for monarch butterflies it is the only food source for monarch caterpillars and the butterflies will breed only where milkweeds.
Small white flowers that have a purple center mature in may july.
Sun part sun soil moisture. Asclepias asperula antelope horns milkweed is a clump forming perennial of upright or sprawling habit boasting amazingly intricate rounded clusters 2 in. Most species are toxic to humans and many other species primarily due to the presence of cardenolides although as with many such plants there are species that feed upon them i e. Native introduced native and introduced.
