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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Apocynaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 157-01-013:

Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Asclepias purpurascens

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Milkweed


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image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_aspu2_001_lvd

        

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_aspu2_005_lvd

        

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_purpurascens

May        

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_purpurascens_16

May        

Upper leaf surface dark green, w red midvein & conspicuous pale vein pattern, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_purpurascens_b

May        

Petals down-curved, hoods erect, horns sharply pointed & shorter than hoods, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_purpurascens_20

June        

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_purpurascens_1

June    Orange County    NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

image of Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_purpurascens_2

June    Orange County    NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Apocynaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 157-01-013:
Asclepias purpurascens   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Asclepias purpurascens

 

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1879

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Openings in moist bottomlands and swamp forests, prairies and meadows (rich, wet to mesic), woodlands, perhaps mostly on soils derived from mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Deep rose
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed corolla, lobes reflexed
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in 1-3 umbels, terminal & from upper leaf axils

FRUIT:
Follicle

 

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