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Asclepias oenotheroides
Also called Side Cluster Milkweed, Prairie Milkweed
Asclepias oenotheroides, commonly known as zizotes milkweed or sidecluster milkweed, is a plant in the dogbane family. It grows in Central America, Mexico, and several US states.
Zizotes milkweed is native to North America from the Colorado and Louisiana in the United States to Costa Rica. In Central America it is native to every country except for Belize and Panama. It is widespread in Mexico, growing in 24 of the 36 states. In the United States it is found in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. It is widespread in Texas, especially in the southern half of the state. In New Mexico it is much less common, only being recorded in Chaves, Santa Fe, and San Miguel counties. Likewise it is recorded in just Blaine and Major counties in Oklahoma. In the three other US states it is found in just one county in each, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Las Animas County, Colorado, and Cochise County, Arizona.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asclepias oenotheroides 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.
