Asclepias cordifolia

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name = Heart-leaf milkweed


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Gentianales
familia = Apocynaceae
subfamilia = Asclepiadoideae
genus = "Asclepias"
species = "A. cordifolia"
binomial = "Asclepias cordifolia"

Asclepias cordifolia is a species of milkweed commonly called Heart-leaf milkweed [ [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ASCO "Asclepias cordifolia" at USDA PLANTS Database] ] or Purple milkweed is native to the southwestern United States (California, Nevada, Oregon). It is a perennial with opposite leaves and dark red-purple flowers with hoods slightly elevated above the base of the corolla. Heart-leaf milkweed grows between 50-2000m elevation in the northern Sierra and Cascade ranges. [ [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?583,586,590 Jepson] ]

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