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Asclepias
asperula (Milkweed)
Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed Family) Semi-desert, foothills.
Woodlands, openings, washes. Spring. This Milkweed, one of about a dozen species in our area and 120 species in the Western Hemisphere, is found in Pinyon-Juniper forests in sandy washes and gravelly and rocky scattered openings and in open Ponderosa woods. In Canyonlands National Park it is almost always found just a few inches up the bank from sandy wash bottoms. Its airy open network of narrow leaves topped by a very large spherical flower cluster make it easy to identify -- even from a distance. Linnaeus named this genus in 1753. "Asclepias" was a legendary Greek physician and the Greek god of medicine and "asperula" is Latin for 'rough". |
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Asclepias
asperula (Milkweed)
Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed Family) Semi-desert, foothills.
Woodlands, openings, washes.
Spring.
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Asclepias
asperula (Milkweed)
Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed Family) Semi-desert, foothills.
Woodlands, openings, washes.
Spring. |