Asclepiadaceae / Milkweed Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 180cm in height (70inches). It has a milky juice.
Leaves: The leaf arrangement is opposite.
Common Milkweed
This native classic is best known as a food of larval monarch butterflies (along with it's siblings A. incarnata and A. tuberosa).
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a native perennial herb found in eastern Canada in fields, ditches, and waste places. This plant has poisoned sheep in the eastern United States.
How to Grow Common Milkweed Asclepias Syriaca
An easy to follow tutorial on growing your own milkweed; 'Asclepias syriaca' for monarch butterflies and for beautifying the garden!
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Asclepias speciosa (Showy Milkweed ,Common Milkweed ,Greek Milkweed, Family: Asclepiadaceae)
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Common Milkweed [English]: Asclepias syriaca
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The common milkweed, a plentiful roadside and field plant of the eastern and central states, is A. syriaca. A number of western species are poisonous to livestock, especially sheep.
PLANT DESCRIPTION: Milkweeds, such as common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca (fig. 26), get their name from the thick, sticky, milky sap that oozes out of cut or torn leaves, stems, and fresh pods.
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Common Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca
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Other wonderful native asclepias include Asclepias syriaca, the common milkweed and Ascelpias verticillata, the narrow leaf milkweed. All are great summer garden flowers, as are most of the twenty species of asclepias native to the Carolinas.
common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa), joe-pye weed (Eupatorium dubium), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida), and Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis), are just a few of the many selections.
Milkweed floss, the silken parachute attached to each seed and primarily obtained from Asclepias speciosa (common milkweed), became an important wartime commodity during the ...
All are recognizable by the un-mistakeable flower shape. American colonists used the down from Common Milkweed seeds as stuffing, and spun it with other fibers into thread. Blooms in late summer. (Photographed in WI) ...
 See also: Asclepias, Milkweed, May, Asclepias syriaca, Green
  
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