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) |
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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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Monarch caterpillar on milkweed. |
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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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