Wild Cotton Milkweed. The common milkweed asclepias syriacqa is one of the best known wild plants in north america children love to play with the downy fluff in autumn while farmers despise it as a tenacious weed of hayfields and pastures. The apocynaceae the milkweed family is a large family of plants including 415 genera and about 4555 species distributed largely throughout the tropics but also in warm temperate climates stevens 2012 the genus gomphocarpus was previously included in the family asclepiadaceae as one species in the genus asclepias but this family is now.
Gomphocarpus cancellatus wild cotton milkweed. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about gomphocarpus species cape milkweed wild cotton milkweed gomphocarpus cancellata supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles da. It is best used in an indigenous garden it makes an accent plant when in flower or in the sterile state.
In fact i feel guilty calling it a weed at all.
The common milkweed asclepias syriacqa is one of the best known wild plants in north america children love to play with the downy fluff in autumn while farmers despise it as a tenacious weed of hayfields and pastures. Gomphocarpus cancellatus wild cotton milkweed. Silkweed wild cotton flower color. By sam thayer milkweed plant isn t your average weed.