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Carolina milkweed

Asclepias cinerea

Also called Ashy Milkweed

Carolina milkweed
Photo: Scott Allen Davis, CC BY 4.0
Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SE. U.S.A.
Climate
subtropical

About

Asclepias cinerea, also known as Carolina milkweed or ashy milkweed, is a herbaceous perennial plant species in the genus Asclepias. It is native to the United States where its range is concentrated in the Southeast.

Where it grows

This species is found in the Southeastern Coastal Plain from eastern South Carolina, down to the Florida panhandle, and west to southern Mississippi. It was also historically found in North Carolina, but is now extirpated. Its native habitats include pine-wiregrass savannas, flatwoods, sandhills, bogs, and pine-scrub oak ridges.

Other Asclepias plants

Cartwheels · Cartwheels · Whitestem milkweed · Asclepias alpestris · Asclepias amabilis · Asclepias ameliae · Clasping milkweed · Arizona milkweed · Asclepias apocynifolia · Sand milkweed · Spider milkweed · Asclepias atroviolacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asclepias cinerea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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