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Photo Guide : Asclepias latifolia (Broadleaf Milkweed)

Entire Plant flower
Flower
(15 K)		 flower
Flower
(12 K)
  • Perennial herb from a deep rootstock
  • 3-6dm tall
  • leaves opposite, 6-15cm long, 4-12cm wide
  • Flowers: greenish
  • Habitat: Sandy, clayey, or rocky calcareous soils of prairies & breaks
  • Distribution: s edge NE, w 2/3 KS, CO, w 1/2 OK, TX, NM; (Great Plains w to e CA, s to s-cen TX & s AZ)
Text taken from:
Great Plains Association, 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. University Press of Kansas.
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