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Common Milkweed

Flowering Plants

Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort or Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed genus Asclepias. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies, and it grows in sandy soils as well as other kinds of soils in sunny areas.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Farmed or Commercially Raised 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Identification
Distinguishing Appearance
Clonal perennial forb that produces white latex when cut, typically 3 to 5 feet tall 1
Scientific Name
Asclepias syriaca 1
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Plantae, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Common Milkweed
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Sources
1. Asclepias syriaca - Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph
    Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant.
  • Conservation status box
    Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
  • Description
    All parts of the plants produce a white latex when cut.
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 285524
    Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant.
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 285524
    Milkweed has also been cultivated commercially to be used as insulation in winter coats.
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2. GBIF Species API
GBIF Species APIView the Source
Wikidata: Common Milkweed
  • Wikidata Q158295, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Plantae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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