Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias syriaca L. Engl.: common milkweed, purple silkweed, common silkweed, cottonweed, milkweed, silkweed, silky swallowwort, Syrian milkweed, Syrian silkweed, virginia-silk, wild cotton. Deu.: Gemeine Seidenpflanze, Gewöhnliche Seidenpflanze, Seidenpflanze. Suom.: mesisilkkiyrtti. Sven.: sidenört. Fran.: herbe à la ouate. Bot. syn.: Asclepias cornuti Decne., Asclepias intermedia Vail, Asclepias kansana Vail.

Asclepias.

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

Asclepias cornuti.

Asclepias cornuti.

Classic texts: AJP 1881: The pics.

Asclepias. (Silkweed.)

Classic texts: Scudder 1870.

Asclepias Cornuti, Decaisne.

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1881.

Asclepias Syriaca.

Classic texts: Felter 1922.

Edible milkweeds.

Archives: Best of the Herbal Forums: 02.1996.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 6.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 6. Green seedpods. Helsinki bot.g. (Kaisan.), Finland. Planted. 2006-08-08.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 7.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 7. Flowering plant. Helsinki bot.g. (Kaisan.), Finland. Planted. 2006-08-08.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 8.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 8. Flowerball. Helsinki bot.g. (Kaisan.), Finland. Planted. 2006-08-08.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 9.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 9. Flowerball, seen from above. Helsinki bot.g. (Kaisan.), Finland. Planted. 2006-08-08.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 5.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 5. Leaf and flowers. Oulu bot.g., Finland. Planted. 2005-08-31.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 4.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 4. Flowering top. Oulu bot.g., Finland. Planted. 2005-08-31.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 3.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 3. Flower. Helsinki bot.g., (Kump.), Finland. Planted. 2002-07-26.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 1.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 1. Closeup of flower. Helsinki bot.g. (Kump.), Finland. Planted. 2000-07-14.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca. Flowering plants. Helsinki bot.g. (Kump.), Finland. Planted. 2000-07-14.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 2.

Photo: Asclepias syriaca 2. Closeup of seedpods. Helsinki bot.g. (Kaisan.), Finland. Planted. 1999-08-24.