Asclepias viridiflora

Green milkweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Asclepias
Species: A. viridiflora
Binomial name
Asclepias viridiflora
Raf.
Synonyms[1]
  • Acerates ivesii (Britton) Wooton & Standl.
  • Acerates lanceolata Steud.
  • Acerates viridiflora (Raf.) Eaton
  • Acerates viridiflora var. ivesii Britton
  • Acerates viridiflora var. lanceolata (E.Ives) A.Gray
  • Asclepias ivesii (Britton) Wooton & Standl.
  • Asclepias lanceolata Ives
  • Asclepias viridiflora var. lanceolata (E.Ives) Torr.
  • Asclepias viridiflora var. linearis (A.Gray) Fernald
  • Asclepias viridiflora var. pubescentitomentosa Hook.
  • Gomphocarpus viridiflorus (Raf.) Spreng.
  • Otanema ovata Raf.
  • Polyotus heterophyllus Nutt.

Asclepias viridiflora, called the "green milkweed," is a widely distributed species of milkweed known from much of the eastern and central United States from Connecticut to Georgia to Arizona to Montana, as well as southern Canada.

Asclepias viridiflora is an erect to ascending herb up to 50 cm tall, with distinctive greenish-white flowers. The pods lack the warts and tubercules common on other species of Asclepias.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Sundell, E. 1993. Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 27:169-187.
  3. ↑ University of Texas at Austin Native Plant Database, Asclepias viridiflora
  4. ↑ Rafinesque. C.S. Medical Repository, ser. 2, 5: 360. 1808.
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