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Asclepias cooperi, or Cooper's milkweed, is a perennial species of milkweed. It is considered to be rare. This is an endemic species, restricted to South Africa. It occurs in a montane grassland biome at an altitude of between 650 and 1 400 m.
It flowers from mid-December to January with large umbels of yellow flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asclepias cooperi 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.
