- Asclepias californica
Taxobox
name = "Asclepias californica"
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image_width = 250px
regnum =Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Gentianales
familia =Apocynaceae
subfamilia =Asclepiadoideae
genus = "Asclepias "
species = "A. californica"
binomial = "Asclepias californica"
binomial_authority = Greene"Asclepias californica" is a species of milkweed known by the common name California milkweed. It is native to California and northern Baja California. It is a flowering perennial with thick, white, woolly stems which bend or run along the ground. The plentiful, hanging flowers are rounded structures with reflexed corollas and starlike arrays of bulbous anthers. The flowers are dull to bright shades of lavender or pink. This plant was eaten as candy by the
Kawaiisu tribes of indigenous California; the milky sap within the leaves is flavorful and chewy when cooked.External links
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ASCA3 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?583,586,589 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Asclepias+californica Photo gallery]
* [http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Asclepias+californica Ethnobotany]
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