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Asclepias syriaca
Dangerous to: cattle, sheep, goats, horses
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About
Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds. It grows in sandy soils as well as other kinds of soils in sunny areas.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Asclepias syriaca
- Slug
- asclepias-syriaca
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Asclepias
- Species
- syriaca
- Wikidata QID
- Q158295
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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