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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 The photos on this page show some of the variation found in a population of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) from a single field in the Duke Forest. | |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 | |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 | |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 Eastern Tailed-Blue resting on the milkweed leaf. | |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 Note the undersufaces of the leaves are finely fuzzy. | |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 |
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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 ... May 7, 2006 | jeffpippen9@gmail.com