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Asclepias macrotis
Also called Long Hood Milkweed, Longhorn Milkweed
Asclepias macrotis, commonly longhorn milkweed or longhood milkweed, is a milkweed from the south central United States and northern Mexico.
The native range for the longhorn milkweed is in northern Mexico and the south-central to southwestern United States. In Mexico it is native to three states, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila. In north of the border it grows in southernmost Arizona in Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties. To the east in New Mexico it is found in three counties in the southeast and six counties in the northwest. In Texas it is native to far west in Hudspeth and Culberson counties and also in Deaf Smith County in the Texas Panhandle. North of this it only recorded in Cimarron County, Oklahoma at the far western end of the state. It only grows in southeastern Colorado in Baca, Las Animas, and Otero counties.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asclepias macrotis 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.
