milkweeds
(Asclepias spp.)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
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Description |
Milkweeds have opposite or whorled leaves on short leaf stalks; milky latex; inflorescences of umbel-like, many-flowered cymes; and a complex flower structure consisting on an erect cup surrounding, in most species, a prolonged horn. |
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Taxonomy |
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Kingdom |
Plantae (green algae and land plants) |
Subkingdom |
Viridiplantae (green plants) |
Infrakingdom |
Streptophyta (land plants and green algae) |
Superdivision |
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Division |
Tracheophyta (vascular plants) |
Subdivision |
Spermatophytina (seed plants) / Angiospermae (flowering plants) |
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Superorder |
Asteranae |
Order |
Gentianales (gentians, dogbanes, madders, and allies) |
Family |
Apocynaceae (dogbane) |
Subfamily |
Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds) |
Tribe |
Asclepiadeae |
Subtribe |
Asclepiadinae |
Subordinate Taxa |
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butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa ssp. interior) clasping milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) four-leaved milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia) green milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora) narrow-leaved milkweed (Asclepias stenophylla) oval-leaf milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia) poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata) prairie milkweed (Asclepias hirtella) purple milkweed (Asclepias purpurascens) showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) Sullivant’s milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii) swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata) |
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Common Names |
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milkweeds |
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Milkweed...Pavia Unit... This was a small milkweed plant I just happened to notice at the NWR Pavia Unit. I was out there the afternoon of the 27th for a couple hours checking it out. My stupid camera time stamp stated 3 am etc. instead of pm. I guess I should have checked that, but oh well. 😄 That water hole still had a good amount of water in it and I seen some ducks in it. It had been dry and warm and windy before the cool down so I wondered if it would have any water in it and it did. The prairie restoration out there seems to be coming along pretty good. Would be interesting to see what its like next spring on. |
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Monarch caterpillar on milkweed. |
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Dan W. Andree |
Location: Northern Tallgrass Prairie NWR, Pavia Unit This was a small milkweed plant I just happened to notice at the NWR Pavia Unit. I was out there the afternoon of the 27th for a couple hours checking it out. My stupid camera time stamp stated 3 am etc. instead of pm. I guess I should have checked that, but oh well. 😄 |
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That water hole still had a good amount of water in it and I seen some ducks in it. It had been dry and warm and windy before the cool down so I wondered if it would have any water in it and it did. The prairie restoration out there seems to be coming along pretty good. Would be interesting to see what its like next spring on. |
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| Luciearl 6/24/2024 |
Location: Fairview Twp |
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| Luciearl 7/6/2020 |
Location: Lake Shore, MN Monarch caterpillar on milkweed. |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/8/2019 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Robert Briggs 10/19/2016 |
Location: Southern River Trail, Afton State Park. |
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