Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asclepias perennis
FAMILY
Apocynaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias perennis
FAMILY
Asclepiadaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 157-01-002:
Asclepias perennis
FAMILY
Asclepiadaceae
COMMON NAME:
Smoothseed Milkweed, Swampforest Milkweed, Swamp Milkweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspe_001_lvd
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John B. Nelson jbn_5745134374_99a0cca6bf
May
Stems conspicuously leafy. Flowers hoods have prominent protruding horns, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.