Asclepias syriaca

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Asclepias syriaca']

• English: common milkweed
• العربية: صقلاب سوري
• مصرى: صقلاب سورى
• Boarisch: Gwénliche Seinpflaunzen
• беларуская: ватачнік сірыйскі
• български: сирийски асклепиас
• čeština: klejicha hedvábná
• Deutsch: Echte Seidenpflanze, Gewöhnliche Seidenpflanze
• suomi: Mesisilkkiyrtti
• français: Asclépiade commune, herbe à ouate
• hrvatski: Prava svilenica
• hornjoserbsce: Syriska židźinka
• magyar: Selyemkóró
• 日本語: オオトウワタ
• lietuvių: Sirinis klemalis
• norsk bokmål: Rosesilkeurt
• Nederlands: Zijdeplant, zijdeplant
• norsk: Rosesilkeurt
• polski: Trojeść amerykańska
• русский: Ваточник сирийский
• slovenščina: sirska svilnica
• српски / srpski: Циганско перје
• српски (ћирилица): Циганско перје
• srpski (latinica): Cigansko perje
• svenska: Sidenört
• Türkçe: Çayır Sütotu, Süt Otu, Yaygın Süt Otu
• українська: Ваточник звичайний
• Tiếng Việt: Giống bông tai thường
• 中文: 西亚马利筋
• 中文（中国大陆）: 普通乳草
• 中文（臺灣）: 維吉尼亞馬利筋

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Cladus: core eudicots • Cladus: superasterids • Cladus: asterids • Cladus: euasterids I • Ordo: Gentianales • Familia: Apocynaceae • Subfamilia: Asclepiadoideae • Tribus: Asclepiadeae • Subtribus: Asclepiadinae • Genus: Asclepias • Species: Asclepias syriaca

Images of the whole plant

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  In Lower Austria on a railway banquette
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  Asclepias syriaca in a garden in Styria, Austria
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  Whole plant
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Flowers

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  In Lower Austria on a railway banquette
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  In Lower Austria on a railway banquette
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  In Lower Austria on a railway banquette
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Buds

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  Top of the plant showing forming flower heads
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  Top of the plant showing an unopened flower head
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  Top of the plant showing an unopened flower head
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  Unopened flower head closeup

Leaves

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Infructescences

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  Seed pods
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  Asclepias syriaca in a garden in Styria, Austria
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  Milkweed seedpod
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  In Vienna on a river bank
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  Asclepias syriaca (Milkweed) spreading seeds, autumn, Poland

Seeds

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Botanical illustrations

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  Asclepias syriaca
  Plate 134 in:
  American Medicinal Plants,
  1887
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  Asclepias syriaca
  Plate 44 in:
  A.Lounsberry:
  A guide to the wild flowers
  (1899)

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