Spider Milkweed

roadside at base of limestone road cut

roadside at base of limestone road cut

these tufts of silky follicles assist with wind dispursement of the seeds

the tuft of silky follicles assist with wind dispursement of the seed

ripe fruiting pods split longitudinally to disperse tufted seeds by air

Summary[edit] Description: This plant is Asclepias asperula, with a common name Antelope Horns. Date: 23 April 2005. Source: self-made; at Gorman Creek Trail, Colorado Bend State Park, Bend, Texas, USA. Author: Wing-Chi Poon.

Description: Asclepias asperula in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Date: May 2005. Source: Own work. Author: Stan Shebs. Stan Shebs, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:. Attribution: Stan Shebs. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.:. Attribution: Stan Shebs. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 CC BY-SA 2.5 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 truetrue. You may select the license of your choice.

Summary[edit] Description: Spider milkweed (Asclepias asperula var.asperula) bloom. NPS Photo/Rendall Seely. Date: 21 May 2008, 08:28. Source: Spider Milkweed. Author: Zion National Park.

Summary[edit] Description: Driving along State Route 159 an observant visitor can still view wildflowers. The red flowers of the Wild Rhubarb, yellow flowers of the Paperflower, and yellow flowers that form a ring around the top of the California barrel cactus add roadside color to the view of the Sandstone Mountains. Also, lining the road is Palmer’s Phacelia, Spider Milkweed and Thurbers Dyssoda adding their colorful hues to the landscape. As temperature rise, the desert wildflowers are quickly fading into the summer sun. See more types of plants and flowers found at Red Rock at ow.ly/l6WiP. Photo by Jim Cribbs/BLM/2013. Date: 13 May 2009, 10:12. Source: Spider Milkweed. Author: BLM Nevada.