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Asclepias syriaca - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 6/2012 © Julia Roeser

Asclepias syriaca - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 6/2012 © Julia Roeser

Asclepias syriaca - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser

Asclepias syriaca - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 9/2012 © Julia Roeser

Asclepias syriaca - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Wendell State Forest, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer

Asclepias syriaca - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 6/2012 © Julia Roeser

Asclepias syriaca - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 9/2012 © Julia Roeser

Dataset

Identifier: 184
Date of entry: 02.12.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common Milkweed

German: Gewöhnliche Seidenpflanze

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Gentianales (113)

        Family: Apocynaceae (37)(family description)

          Genus: Asclepias (2)

            Epithet: syriaca L. (2)

syriaca => from Syria

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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