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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
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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!
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asclepias connivens
FAMILY
Apocynaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asclepias connivens
FAMILY
Asclepiadaceae
COMMON NAME:
Largeflower Milkweed
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