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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Asclepias variegata
Phenology Observation Sheet for Wildflowers and Herbs

COMMON NAME

White milkweed

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Asclepias variegata

ALSO KNOWN AS

Redring milkweed

Plant family

Dogbane (Apocynaceae)

Plant group

Wildflowers and Herbs

Growing anywhere from 1 to 4 feet tall, this milkweed is common in the southeastern united states but becomes rare at the northern part of its range.
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OBSERVERS
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OBSERVATIONS
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Identification hints

Typical milkweed flowers, but these form showy spherical white inflorescences with purplish red at the base of the corona.
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It is recognized by pollination ecologists as attracting large number of native bees.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arkansas , Connecticut , District of Columbia , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky , Louisiana , Maryland , Missouri , Mississippi , North Carolina , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , South Carolina , Tennessee , Texas , Virginia , West Virginia
HABITAT
This milkweed can be found in sandy open ground, ravine bottoms, ridges, and roadsides.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Thick leaves have petioles and are ovate. 2-6" long 1-3" wide, dark green and hairless above, lighter below with hair.
Flowers
White flowers with purple on the base of the corona, clustered in a 30+ flowered spherical umbel. Petals are reflexed backward.
Fruits
Pods erect and brownish
Bloom Time
May-July

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