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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Asclepias californica ssp. californica
Phenology Observation Sheet for Wildflowers and Herbs

COMMON NAME

California milkweed

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Asclepias californica ssp. californica

Plant family

Dogbane (Apocynaceae)

Plant group

Wildflowers and Herbs

Only growing in California, this milkweed is very drought tolerant, surviving in sandy soils.
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Identification hints

Reaches 3-4 feet, with white woolly hair everywhere but on the flowers. Thick stems bend or run along the ground with milky sap. Mature plants can have multiple stems.
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Although found in the central Coast Ranges, the southern Sierra Nevada, and the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, it is largely absent from the Central Valley.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
California
HABITAT
Dry slopes from 600-7000 feet elevation.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Leaves opposite and sessile, covered densely with hair. 2-7" long x 1-3" wide
Flowers
Flowers lavender, deep purple, or pink, in pendulous umbels each with about 10 flowers per umbel. No horns present, and the petals are reflexed backwards.
Bloom Time
April-July

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