Asclepias subulata
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Speciesbox
Asclepias subulata is a species of milkweed known commonly as the rush milkweed, desert milkweed[1] or ajamete. This is an erect perennial herb which loses its leaves early in the season and stands as a cluster of naked stalks. Atop the stems are inflorescences of distinctive flowers. Each cream-white flower has a reflexed corolla that reveals the inner parts, a network of five shiny columns, each topped with a tiny hook. The fruit is a pouchlike follicle that contains many flat, oval seeds with long, silky hairlike plumes. This milkweed is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico. It grows in dry slopes, mesas, plains and desert washes.[2]
Researchers in Bard, California, tested the plant as a potential source of natural rubber in 1935.[3]
Asclepias subulata is a larval host for the monarch butterfly.[4]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- Asclepias
- North American desert flora
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Nevada
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Rubber
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
- Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne