Genus

Asclepias (Milkweeds)

Asclepias speciosa. Photo: (c) stormcatcher, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Asclepias L. (1753), the milkweeds, is an American genus of herbaceous perennial, dicotyledonous plants that contains over 140 known species. It previously belonged to the family Asclepiadaceae, but this is now classified as the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the dogbane family Apocynaceae.

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