Scientific name: Asclepias purpurascens L. Common name: Purple milkweed Family: Asclepiadaceae; Milkweed Origin: Native Legal Status: (S1)- Critically imperiled in Georgia Blooming records: May 20, 1994; May 20, 2000; May 23, 2009. Image: Asclepias purpurascens L. at the Road of Remembrance, "Old Stretch Road", flatwoods of the Berry College Campus, Oostanaula River Valley, Mt. Berry, Georgia; May 23, 2009.

Last updated on May 2, 2011.

References:
1. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1968: pg 852
2. Peterson, Roger T., and Margaret McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996: pg.294
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database, (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Botanical explorations in Floyd County, Georgia

Flatwoods at Berry College Campus, Floyd County, Georgia