Summary[edit] Description: On Seedskadee NWR, showy milkweed grows around the margins of wetlands where the ground has been disturbed in the past. It produces abundant flowers used by many pollinators. The young seedpods are eaten by deer, moose, and rabbits. Stems die back each fall after frost and the plants regrow from the root systems the next spring. plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_assp.pdf Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Date: 1 August 2014, 20:28. Source: Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) Seedskadee NWR. Author: USFWS Mountain-Prairie.
Description: The sepals and petals are reflexed (bent back and downward) and the staminal hoods and horns project upward. Date: 10 July 2006, 13:25. Source: Asclepias speciosa Uploaded by Tim1357. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location45° 41′ 17.72″ N, 110° 30′ 14.12″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 45.688255; -110.503923.
Summary[edit] Description: Sun filtering through a showy milkweed leaf on Seedskadee NWR makes an interesting pattern. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Date: 28 July 2014, 09:03. Source: Showy milkweed pattern. Author: USFWS Mountain-Prairie.
Summary[edit] Description: Finally got some flowers on these, after years of my Asclepias collapsing due to some horrible black lurgy. Date: 28 June 2015, 20:17. Source: Asclepias speciosa. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.