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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias humistrata   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 157-01-011:

Asclepias humistrata   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

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

Asclepias humistrata

 

COMMON NAME:
Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed


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image of Asclepias humistrata, Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed

Alan S. Weakley    asw_1920844108273785

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

Leaves blue-green with pink veins, smooth, thick, oval, sessile-clasping, to 4" long, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Asclepias humistrata, Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed

John B. Nelson    jbn_146559535_368ec7915a

May        

image of Asclepias humistrata, Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed

Will Stuart    wil_14247609931

May    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Leaf surfaces dull green decorated with conspicuous pink to lavender veins, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Asclepias humistrata, Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed

Will Stuart    wil_14247609931b

May    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

image of Asclepias humistrata, Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed, Sandhill Milkweed

Will Stuart    wil_14247609931c

May    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

The hoods are whitish, the petals ashy to pinkish-gray & strongly reflexed, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias humistrata   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 157-01-011:
Asclepias humistrata   FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2566

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills and Florida scrub, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

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

Flowers in 2-5(+) umbels, from upper leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer
Follicle

 

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