Asclepias \u2013 Milkweed \u2013 Silkweed<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are about 110 species of evergreen or deciduous clump or spreading perennials and a few subshrubs rarely shrubs, in this genus. \u00a0They occur form well-drained sites in scrub or grassland sometimes from marsh lands, wet scrub, and lakeside areas in South Africa and temperate North America and tropical North and South America. \u00a0They produce narrowly elliptic to lance shaped or ovate alternate sometimes spirally arranged leaves. \u00a0It bears umbel-like cymes of numerous small flowers up to 1\u201d across. The lobes are arch or bent sharply back to show the unusual upright horn like stamens. \u00a0The flowers are followed by spindle shaped green fruits that vary in length which ripen to yellowish brown that split open to expose rows of seeds with long silky white hairs thus the common name, silkweed. \u00a0Their great for attracting bee\u2019s and butterflies, the sap is acrid and poisonous and the butterfly larvae that feed on them are toxic to predators such as birds. \u00a0There are great for a border, meadow or wildflower gardens. \u00a0Contact with sap may irritate skin.<\/p>\n

Cold hardiness varies greatly between species. \u00a0These easily grown plants that need fertile, well-drained, loamy soil in full sun. \u00a0Divide in spring.<\/p>\n

Prone to Whiteflies, spider mites, aphids, mealybugs, rust,<\/i><\/em>\u00a0bacterial leaf spots<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and fungi leaf spots.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Ascelpias syriaca \u2013 Common Milkweed<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This vigorous softly hairy perennial from Eastern North America grows to 6\u2019 feet tall and can spread indefinitely. \u00a0On upright stems it carries opposite oblong-ovate leaves 4-10\u201d long, mid-green above with blue-green undersides. \u00a0\u00a0In summer it bears fragrant greenish purple and pink occasionally white flowers in axillary nodding umbel-like cymes 2\u201d wide. \u00a0\u00a0Pendent softly spiny fruit follows the flowers to 5\u201d long. \u00a0It may become weedy.<\/p>\n

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