Inflorescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 6/2012 © Julia Roeser
Fruits; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser
Fruit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 9/2012 © Julia Roeser
Fruit; Wendell State Forest, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer
Habit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 6/2012 © Julia Roeser
Habit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 9/2012 © Julia Roeser
Identifier: 184 Date of entry: 02.12.2005 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: Common Milkweed
German: Gewöhnliche Seidenpflanze
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Gentianales (113)
Family: Apocynaceae (37)(family description)
Genus: Asclepias (2)
Epithet: syriaca L. (2)
syriaca => from Syria
Climate: temperate
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
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