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Asclepias albicans, white milkweed
tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States
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Asclepias curassavica, blood flower, swallowwort
tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
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Asclepias exaltata, poke milkweed
milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed
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Asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweed
densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers
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Asclepia meadii, Asclepias meadii, Mead's milkweed
milkweed of central North America; a threatened species
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Asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweed
perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers
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Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed
milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers
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Asclepias subverticillata, horsetail milkweed, poison milkweed
milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock
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Asclepias tuberosa, Indian paintbrush, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root
erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers
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Asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweed
milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers
