Asclepias tuberosa

Asclepias tuberosa L. Engl.: butterfly milkweed, pleurisy root, butterfly weed, chigger weed, flux-root, orange swallowwort, swallow-wort, tuber root, white root, wind root. Deu.: Knollige Seidenpflanze. Suom.: karvasilkkiyrtti. Sven.: orange sidenört. Bot. syn.: Asclepias decumbens L.

Asclepias.

Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Diaphoretics.

Asclepias Tuberosa.

Classic texts: Petersen 1905.

Asclepias Tuberosa.

Classic texts: Felter 1922.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa 3.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa 3. Closeup of flower. Tampere, Finland. Planted. 2000-09-01.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa 2.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa 2. Flowering plant. Lake Maclellan, TX, US. Wild. 1998-06-01.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa.

Photo: Asclepias tuberosa. Flowering plants, two color variants. Lake Maclellan, TX, US. Wild. 1998-06-01.