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Asclepiadaceae>Asclepias lanceolata | |
Few-flowered Milkweed (Asclepias lanceolata) Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 Uncommon in the NC coastal plain, flower color varies a bit in this species. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 A common color pattern is to have orange-red petals with a lighter yellow-orange corona, as seen here. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 A few pairs of opposite, lanceolate leaves are found on the stem. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 Leaf detail. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 Some individuals have a uniform orange-red flower color. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 Apparently very rare, however, is a form with pink-purple flowers! Note, two leaves are missing on the upper stem. Lower leaves show that the arrangement is indeed opposite on this plant. | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 Lower cauline leaf detail | |
Brunswick Co., NC 14 Aug 2006 All three of the above individual plants with the three different flower colors were growing within a few meters of each other in a wet power line savannah habitat. | |
This next series of pictures is from a single population of Asclepias lanceolata in the Croatan National Forest.
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Fruit Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
Created on ... August 14, 2006 | jeffpippen9@gmail.com