Common name
English: Mexican butterfly weed
German: Indianer-Seidenpflanze
Portuguese: Oficial-de-sala
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2611)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2511)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2123)
Order: Gentianales (110)
Family: Apocynaceae (36)(family description)
Genus: Asclepias (2)
Epithet: curassavica L. (1)
Synonyms: Asclepias cubensis Wender., Asclepias cubensis Wender.
cubensis => from Cuba
curassavica => from or of Curaçao, Leeward Antilles, Caribbean
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
Flower colour: red, orange, yellow