NameThatPlant.net: Asclepias connivens

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asclepias connivens FAMILY Apocynaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias connivens FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

COMMON NAME:
Largeflower Milkweed

No pictures are available at this time.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asclepias connivens FAMILY Apocynaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias connivens FAMILY Asclepiadaceae

3174

Forb
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Common (rare in SC)

Look for it in wet pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Summer
Greenish-yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed corolla, lobes reflexed
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Follicle

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!